Thomas Szasz: 12 books
by Thomas Szasz
Language: Turkish
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: Turkish
Release Date: January 1, 2001
"Psikiyatrinin şimdiye kadar yazılmış en etkili ve radikal eleştirisi"
Yalanlar Bilimi Psikiyatri
Thomas Szasz
"Psikanaliz gibi psikoloji de yeni bir insan icadı ve yeni bir akademik disiplindir. İkisi de Aydınlanma'nın, modernitenin, bilim çağının zararlı...
The Szasz Quotationary
The Wit and Wisdom of Thomas Szasz
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The Szasz Quotationary is a collection of excerpts and aphorisms from the writings of Thomas Szasz organized in 50 chapters arranged alphabetically by subject. For more than 60 years, Szasz has exposed the deceptive and coercive nature of the history, ideology and practice of psychiatry, calling mental...
Words to the Wise
A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"The human mind abhors the absence of explanation, but full understanding is never possible. Human understanding is likely to be incomplete at best and, more often, utterly fallacious. To make matters worse, it is likely to be supported as truth and wisdom by religious and scientific authority,...
A Lexicon of Lunacy
Metaphoric Malady, Moral Responsibility and Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Thomas Szasz is renowned for his critical exploration of the literal language of psychiatry and his rejection of officially sanctioned definitions of mental illness. His work has initiated a continuing debate in the psychiatric community whose essence is often misunderstood. Szasz's critique of the...
My Madness Saved Me
The Madness and Marriage of Virginia Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"The vast literature on Virginia Woolf's life, work, and marriage falls into two groups. A large majority is certain that she was mentally ill, and a small minority is equally certain that she was not mentally ill but was misdiagnosed by psychiatrists. In this daring exploration of Woolf's life...
Faith in Freedom
Libertarian Principles and Psychiatric Practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The libertarian philosophy of freedom is characterized by two fundamental beliefs: the right to be left alone and the duty to leave others alone. Psychiatric practice routinely violates both of these beliefs. It is based on the notion that self-ownership—exemplified by suicide—is a not an inherent...
Liberation by Oppression
A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Originally called mad-doctoring, psychiatry began in the seventeenth century with the establishing of madhouses and the legal empowering of doctors to incarcerate persons denominated as insane. Until the end of the nineteenth century, every relationship between psychiatrist and patient was based on...
Facets of Liberty
A Libertarian Primer
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Facets of Liberty is a collection of historical articles by well-known liberty activists and theorists from the early days of the libertarian, voluntaryist, classical liberal and individual anarchist movements, which first emerged during the turbulent 1960s. These articles lay a foundation to understand...
Closed Systems and Open Minds
The Limits of Naivety in Social Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Social anthropology, defined operationally in terms of what social anthropologists have done in the last fifty years, is the study and comparison of tribal societies and of small fields of social life with emphasis on the role of custom. When a social anthropologist's research leads him into any field,...
The Myth of Mental Illness
Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
50th Anniversary Edition With a New Preface and Two Bonus Essays
The most influential critique of psychiatry ever written, Thomas Szasz's classic book revolutionized thinking about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. By diagnosing unwanted behavior...
Grausames Mitleid
Über die Aussonderung unerwünschter Menschen
Language: German
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Nach Thomas Szasz praktiziert die Psychiatrie insofern "grausames Mitleid", als sie psychisch Erkrankte zwar versorgt, deren Freiheitsrechte aber grausam mißachtet. Er hat den Verdacht, daß die traditionelle Psychiatrie – hervorgegangen aus Zwangseinrichtungen früherer Zeiten – weitgehend...
Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care
An Interdisciplinary Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental health care, including consent, trauma and violence, addiction, confidentiality, and therapeutic boundaries.
This book discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient...