294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
293 Pages
by
Routledge
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Understanding the history of psychiatry requires an accurate view of its function and purpose. In this provocative new study, Szasz challenges conventional beliefs about psychiatry. He asserts that, in fact, psychiatrists are not concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of bona fide illnesses. Psychiatric tradition, social expectation, and the law make it clear that coercion is the profession's... Read more
Introduction: Force and Freedom1. Mental Hospitalization: Therapeutic Imprisonment 2. Shock and Commotion: Terror Therapy 3. Moral Treatment: Renaming Coercion 4. Dauerschlaf: Requiescant in Pace 5. Iatrogenic Epilepsy: And Other Electrical- Therapeutic Miracles 6. Lobotomy: Cerebral Spaying 7. Psychopharmacology I: Psychiatric Drugs 8. Psychopharmacology II: Psychedelic Drugs Conclusion: Psychiatry—A House United
Biography
Frank Villafana
