1st Edition
A Lexicon of Lunacy Metaphoric Malady, Moral Responsibility and Psychiatry
By Thomas Szasz
Copyright 1993
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 established view of mental illness is rooted in an insistent distinction between disease and... Read more
Introduction; I: Language and Lunacy; 1: Shakespeare’s Plays; 2: The Contemporary Scene; 3: Dictionaries of Deviance; 4: Dictionaries of Drunkenness; II: Metaphoric Malady, Moral Responsibility, and Psychiatry; 5: The Religion Called “Psychiatry”; 6: Mental Illness and Mental Incompetence; 7: The Illusion of Mental Patients’ Rights; 8: The Illusion of Drug Abuse Treatment; 9: The Case Against Suicide Prevention; 10: The Psychiatric Will; 11: Ex Parte Psychiatry; Epilogue
Biography
Thomas Szasz
