Thomas Szasz Forfatter
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Psychiatric Justice (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Dealing with the relationship between psychiatry and the law, this book looks at the federal and state procedures which render impotent the constitutional right to a speedy and public trial. Trial transcripts are used to support the author's arguments.
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My Madness Saved Me: The Madness and Marriage of Virginia Woolf (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The vast literature on Virginia Woolf's life, work, and marriage falls into two groups
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Faith in Freedom: Libertarian Principles and Psychiatric Practices (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The libertarian philosophy of freedom is characterized by two fundamental beliefs: the right to be left alone and the duty to leave others alone
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A Lexicon of Lunacy: Metaphoric Malady, Moral Responsibility and Psychiatry (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Thomas Szasz is renowned for his critical exploration of the literal language of psychiatry and his rejection of officially sanctioned definitions of mental illness
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Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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
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Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The human mind abhors the absence of explanation, but full understanding is never possible
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Closed Systems and Open Minds: The Limits of Naivety in Social Anthropology (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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
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The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Every age, labels others to a particular fate, such as the witch consigned to the fire. The priest has... Læs mere
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The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing As Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This intriguing book undercuts everything you thought you knew about psychotherapy.
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Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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Sex by Prescription: The Startling Truth About Today's Sex Therapy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The author of this book argues that human sexuality - however it may be expressed - reveals who we are and who we want to be. He claims... Læs mere
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Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This work shows how the present drug war started at the beginning of this century, when the US government first assumed the task of protecting people from... Læs mere
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