Thomas Szasz (1920-2012) was professor of psychiatry emeritus at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York and adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, Washington, DC. He was a prominent figure in the anti-psychiatry movement and a critic of the moral and scientific foundation of psychiatry.
-For many years Szasz has been one of the leading spokesmen for the
-anti-psychiatric- movement. He has long argued that mental
diseases are manufactured by the psychiatric establishment and that
psychiatrists serve no legitimate therapeutic purpose other than
enforcing societal norms. Drawing from the libertarian tradition,
Szasz remains an important figure in the reform movement and an
articulate critic of involuntary treatment of mental diseases, the
medicalization of aberrant behaviors (alcholism, gambling, drug
abuse, PMS, etc.), and suicide prevention.- --R. F. White, Choice
-No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision
and zest of Thomas Szasz. Another good book in an impressive
canon.- --John Leo, U.S. News & World Report -Thomas Szasz has
created an extraordinary body of work, that continues to raise
consequential challenges to the the prevailing myths of the culture
of psychology.- --Tobias Wolff, PEN/Faulkner Award-winner, Stanford
University
"For many years Szasz has been one of the leading spokesmen for the
"anti-psychiatric" movement. He has long argued that mental
diseases are manufactured by the psychiatric establishment and that
psychiatrists serve no legitimate therapeutic purpose other than
enforcing societal norms. Drawing from the libertarian tradition,
Szasz remains an important figure in the reform movement and an
articulate critic of involuntary treatment of mental diseases, the
medicalization of aberrant behaviors (alcholism, gambling, drug
abuse, PMS, etc.), and suicide prevention." --R. F. White, Choice
"No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision
and zest of Thomas Szasz. Another good book in an impressive
canon." --John Leo, U.S. News & World Report "Thomas Szasz has
created an extraordinary body of work, that continues to raise
consequential challenges to the the prevailing myths of the culture
of psychology." --Tobias Wolff, PEN/Faulkner Award-winner, Stanford
University
"For many years Szasz has been one of the leading spokesmen for the
"anti-psychiatric" movement. He has long argued that mental
diseases are manufactured by the psychiatric establishment and that
psychiatrists serve no legitimate therapeutic purpose other than
enforcing societal norms. Drawing from the libertarian tradition,
Szasz remains an important figure in the reform movement and an
articulate critic of involuntary treatment of mental diseases, the
medicalization of aberrant behaviors (alcholism, gambling, drug
abuse, PMS, etc.), and suicide prevention." --R. F. White, Choice
"No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision
and zest of Thomas Szasz. Another good book in an impressive
canon." --John Leo, "U.S. News & World Report" "Thomas Szasz has
created an extraordinary body of work, that continues to raise
consequential challenges to the the prevailing myths of the culture
of psychology." "--"Tobias Wolff, PEN/Faulkner Award-winner,
Stanford University
"Thomas Szasz has created an extraordinary body of work, that
continues to raise consequential challenges to the the prevailing
myths of the culture of psychology." "-- Tobias Wolff, PEN/Faulkner
Award-winner, Stanford University"
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