Anti psychiatry

Rubriek: Textual/Printed/Reference Materials - Boek

Prijs: € 22.99

Rating: 0/5

☆

☆

☆

☆

☆

Verzending:
Uiterlijk 13 december in huis

More than fifty years ago, Thomas Szasz showed that the concept of mental illness - a disease of the mind - is an oxymoron, a metaphor, a myth. In this book, he argues that his writings belong to neither psychiatry nor antipsychiatry. They stem from conceptual analysis, social-political criticism, and common sense.



More than fifty years ago, Thomas Szasz showed that the concept of mental illness - a disease of the mind - is an oxymoron, a metaphor, a myth. Disease, in the medical sense, affects only the body. He also demonstrated that civil commitment and the insanity defense, the paradigmatic practices of psychiatry, are incompatible with the political values of personal responsibility and individual liberty. The psychiatric establishment's rejection of Szasz's critique posed no danger to his work: its defense of coercions and excuses as ""therapy"" supported his argument regarding the metaphorical nature of mental illness and the transparent immorality of brutal psychiatric control masquerading as humane medical care. In the late 1960s, the launching of the so-called antipsychiatry movement vitiated Szasz's effort to present a precisely formulated conceptual and political critique of the medical identity of psychiatry and of psychiatric coercions and excuses. Led by the Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing, the antipsychiatrists used the term to attract attention to themselves and deflect attention from what they did, which included coercions and excuses based on psychiatric principles and power. For this reason, Szasz rejected, and continues to reject, psychiatry and antipsychiatry with equal vigor. Subsuming his work under the rubric of antipsychiatry betrays and negates it just as surely and effectively as subsuming it under the rubric of psychiatry. In ""Antipsychiatry: Quackery Squared"", Szasz powerfully argues that his writings belong to neither psychiatry nor antipsychiatry. They stem from conceptual analysis, social-political criticism, and common sense.

• 1 Bekijk alle specificaties

Psychiatric Slavery

Rating: 0 / 5 | Prijs: € 27.95

Millions of americans diagnosed mentally ill are drugged and confined by doctors for non criminal conduct go unpunished for crimes they commit and are supported by the state not because they are sick but because they are unproductive and unwanted this study re examines such interventions re e Uiterlijk 13 december in huis .. MEER INFO

Myth Of Mental Illness

Rating: 0 / 5 | Prijs: € 11.99

By diagnosing behaviour problems as mental illness this book argues that psychiatry absolves the individual of responsibility for his actions placing blame instead on the illness it also argues that freudian psychology is a dangerous pseudo science and critiques the overreach of psychology int Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, dinsdag in huis .. MEER INFO