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Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man

Thomas Szasz

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Description:This volume contains the earliest essays, going back more than 30 years, in which the author staked out his position on 'the nature, scope, methods & values of psychiatry.'PrefacePreface to the 1st EditionAcknowledgmentsThe myth of mental illnessThe mental health ethic The rhetoric of rejectionMental health as ideologyWhat psychiatry can & cannot doBootlegging humanistic values through psychiatryThe insanity plea & the insanity verdictInvoluntary mental hospitalization: a crime against humanityMental health services in the schoolPsychiatry, the state & the university: the problem of the professional identity of academic psychiatryPsychiatric classification as a strategy of personal constraintWhither psychiatry?IndexWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man. To get started finding Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Syracuse University Press (NY)

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ISBN: 0815602561

Description: This volume contains the earliest essays, going back more than 30 years, in which the author staked out his position on 'the nature, scope, methods & values of psychiatry.'PrefacePreface to the 1st EditionAcknowledgmentsThe myth of mental illnessThe mental health ethic The rhetoric of rejectionMental health as ideologyWhat psychiatry can & cannot doBootlegging humanistic values through psychiatryThe insanity plea & the insanity verdictInvoluntary mental hospitalization: a crime against humanityMental health services in the schoolPsychiatry, the state & the university: the problem of the professional identity of academic psychiatryPsychiatric classification as a strategy of personal constraintWhither psychiatry?IndexWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man. To get started finding Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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