Coercion As Cure: A Critical History of PsychiatryTransaction Publishers, 2009 - 278 páginas Understanding the history of psychiatry requires an accurate view of its function and purpose. In this provocative new study of this nominal medical specialty, Szasz challenges conventional beliefs about psychiatry. He asserts that, in fact, psychiatrists are not concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of bonafide illnesses. He contends that the truth about psychiatry, its self-evident ends, and the means used to achieve them is socially unacceptable. Psychiatric tradition, social expectation, and the law make it clear that coercion is the profession's determining characteristi |
Contenido
Force and Freedom | 1 |
Therapeutic Imprisonment | 15 |
Terror Therapy | 63 |
Renaming Coercion | 83 |
Requiescant in Pace | 103 |
And Other Electrical | 117 |
Cerebral Spaying | 151 |
Psychiatric Drugs | 173 |
Psychedelic Drugs | 209 |
PsychiatryA House United | 223 |
Notes | 229 |
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Acknowledgments | 269 |
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Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry Thomas Stephen Szasz Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
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