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1	The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct more books like this by Thomas S Szasz, M.D. add to wishlist Thomas Szasz's classic book revolutionised thinking throughout the world about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. By diagnosing behaviour problems as 'mental illness', psychiatry, Szasz argues, absolves the individual of responsibility for his actions, placing blame instead on the illness. In "The ... see all copies from $3.37! new only from $9.15! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement more books like this by Thomas Szasz add to wishlist Every age, labels others to a particular fate, such as the witch consigned to the fire. The priest has now been replaced by the psychiatrist and this text examines the role of medicine as a more insidious tyrant than religion, as it claims to be beneficial to both the patient and the commonwealth. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.02! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Ideology & Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man more books like this by Thomas S Szasz, M.D. add to wishlist This volume contains the earliest essays, going back more than thirty years, in which the author staked out his position on 'the nature, scope, methods, and values of psychiatry.' see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted more books like this by Thomas Szasz add to wishlist This study examines ways in which psychiatry is used to control, segregate, and "treat" society's unwanted: adult dependents, the homeless, and those labelled mentally ill. Just as society once put the indigent in the poorhouse and workhouse, housed epileptics in state institutions, and imprisoned defaulting debtors, today coercive psychiatric ... see all copies from $5.50! new only from $14.94! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, & Pushers more books like this by Thomas S Szasz, M.D. add to wishlist In this polemical response to the controversy about drug use and drug criminalization, Thomas Szasz suggests that governments have overstepped their bounds in labelling and prohibiting certain drugs as "dangerous" substances and incarcerating "addicts" in order to cure them. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality, and Neuroscience more books like this by Thomas Szasz add to wishlist This work should be of interest to the general reader - as well as to the specialist in neuroscience, philosophy, law and the mental health professions - for at least two reasons: 1, because it offers a systematic exposition of mind-as-minding and of minding-as-inner dialogue or self-conversation; and 2, because it presents a carefully documented ... see all copies from $2.20! new only from $15.71! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry more books like this by Thomas Stephen Szasz add to wishlist see all copies from $6.63! new only from $10.18! \| first editions
8	Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide more books like this by Thomas Stephen Szasz add to wishlist This book takes issue with the modern West's antipathy to suicide, and argues that it stems from a history of ethical and philosophical confusion. The suicidal, Szasz argues, should be left alone and treated as people making a legitimate and honorable decision. see all copies from $6.00! new only from $14.84! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary more books like this by Thomas Szasz add to wishlist This is a new collection of biting aphorisms and provocative meditations by the master iconoclast of our age. Of The Untamed Tongue Szasz says: "I have tried, in the tradition of Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, to present a satirical overview of the current state of the human comedy -- with special emphasis on psychiatry, therapy, and related ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $29.72! \| SVS
10	The second sin more books like this by Thomas Stephen Szasz add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
11	Pain and Pleasure: A Study of Bodily Feelings more books like this by Thomas Szasz add to wishlist In this work Dr. Szasz dispels popular and scientific confusion about what pain and pleasing actually are. Demonstrating the doubtful value of such distinctions as 'real' and 'imagined' pain, or 'physical' and 'intellectual' pleasure, he analyzes; the basic concept--psychological, philosophical, and sociological--involved in bodily feelings and ... see all copies from $4.11! new only from $34.63! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Psychiatry: The Science of Lies more books like this by Thomas Stephen Szasz add to wishlist For 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: to portray the integral role of deception in the history and practice of psychiatry.Szasz argues that the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness ... see all copies from $14.84! new only from $14.84!
13 view cover	The Theology of Medicine: The Political-Philosophical Foundations of Medical Ethics more books like this by Thomas Stephen Szasz add to wishlist The essays assembled in this volume reflect my long-standing interest in moral philosophy and my conviction that the idea of a medical ethics as something distinct and separate from ethics is an absurdity. Every person who acts is a moral agent. A person who possesses special knowledge and skills and is expected to act in the face of life ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America more books like this by Thomas Stephen Szasz add to wishlist This work highlights how the introduction of third-party payers into medicine has altered the relationship between doctor and patient. In a theocracy, human problems are perceived as religious in nature and susceptible to religious remedies. This book illustrates how in a pharmacracy people perceive human problems as medical in nature and this ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions
15 view cover	Psychiatric Justice more books like this by Thomas Stephen Szasz add to wishlist Szasz troubles the dark, still waters of psychiatry and the law. He peeps beneath the crazy quilt of federal and state procedures which render impotent the constitutional right to a speedy and public trial. see all copies from $2.49! new only from $29.99! \| first editions
16 view cover	Psychiatric Slavery more books like this by Thomas Stephen Szasz add to wishlist Re-examining psychiatric interventions from a cultural-historical and political-economic perspective, Szasz demonstrates that the main problem that faces mental health policymakers today is adult dependency. Millions of Americans, diagnosed as mentally ill, are drugged and confined by doctors for non-criminal conduct, go legally unpunished for the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.04! \| first editions
17 view cover	Thomas Szasz: Primary Values and Major Contentions more books like this by Lee S Weinberg (Photographer), Richard E Vatz (Editor), Thomas Stephen Szasz add to wishlist Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz has been challenging the very existence of 'mental illness' for over twenty-five years. His landmark book "The Myth of Mental Illness" won him recognition as America's leading opponent of conventional psychiatric practice. Szasz argues that 'mental illness' and its supposed 'cure', psychotherapy, are myths and that there ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $37.07! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing as Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression more books like this by Thomas Szasz add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.68! \| first editions \| SVS
19	The Age of Madness: The History of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization, Presented in Selected Texts more books like this by Thomas Stephen Szasz add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
20	A Lexicon of Lunacy: Metaphoric Malady, Moral Responsibility, and Psychiatry more books like this by Thomas Stephen Szasz add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00! new only from $25.39! \| first editions
21 view cover	My Madness Saved Me: The Madness and Marriage of Virginia Woolf more books like this by Thomas Stephen Szasz add to wishlist 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 and work, Thomas Szasz - famed for his radical ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $25.20!
22	Sex by Prescription more books like this by Thomas Stephen Szasz add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $31.95! \| first editions \| SVS
23	Karl Kraus and the Soul-Doctors: A Pioneer Critic and His Criticism of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis more books like this by Thomas Stephen Szasz add to wishlist see all copies from $6.99! first editions
24	Heresies more books like this by Thomas Stephen Szasz add to wishlist see all copies from $3.00! first editions
25 view cover	Faith in Freedom: Libertarian Principles and Psychiatric Practices more books like this by Thomas Stephen Szasz, Alan Levine add to wishlist The ethical standards of psychiatric practice mandate that psychiatrists coerce certain innocent persons. Abstaining from such "intervention" is considered malpractice--dereliction of the psychiatristsa "duty to protect." This duty reflects the fact that psychiatry is an arm of the coercive apparatus of the state, converting it to an institution ... see all copies from $23.98! new only from $41.91! \| SVS

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