Thomas Szasz
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Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement
$19.95 Add to cartIn this seminal work, Dr. Szasz examines the similarities between the Inquisition and institutional psychiatry. His purpose is to show “that the belief in mental illness and the social actions to whic
- Author: Szasz, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0815604610
- Language: English
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Psychiatry: The Science of Lies
$14.95 Add to cartFor more than half a century, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, is a culmination of his life’s work: t
- Author: Szasz, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 28 2019
- ISBN10: 081560792X
- Language: English
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Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man
$19.95 Add to cartThis book is a collection of the earliest essays of Thomas Szasz, in which he staked out his position on “the nature, scope, methods, and values of psychiatry.” On each of these issues, he opposed the
- Author: Szasz, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: April 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0815602561
- Language: English
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Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences
$19.95 Add to cartIs insanity a myth? Does it exist merely to keep psychiatrists in business? In Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences, Dr. Szasz challenges the way both science and society define insanity; in the p… [more below]
- Author: Szasz, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0815604602
- Language: English
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Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America
$19.95 Add to cartThe modern penchant for transforming human problems into “diseases” and judicial sanctions into “treatments,” replacing the rule of law with the rule of medical discretion, leads to a type of governme… [more below]
- Author: Szasz, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 1, 2003
- ISBN10: 0815607636
- Language: English
