Suicide prohibition

Rubriek: Textual/Printed/Reference Materials - Boek

Prijs: € 21

Rating: 0/5

☆

☆

☆

☆

☆

Verzending:
Uiterlijk 13 december in huis

In Western thought, suicide has evolved from sin to sin-and-crime, to crime, to mental illness, and to semilegal act. A legal act is one we are free to think and speak about and plan and perform, without penalty by agents of the state.

While dying voluntarily is ostensibly legal, suicide attempts and even suicidal thoughts are routinely punished by incarceration in a psychiatric institution. Although many people believe the prevention of suicide is one of the duties the modern state owes its citizens, Szasz argues that suicide is a basic human right and that the lengths to which the medical industry goes to prevent it represent a deprivation of that right.

Drawing on his general theory of the myth of mental illness, Szasz makes a compelling case that the voluntary termination of one’s own life is the result of a decision, not a disease. He presents an in-depth examination and critique of contemporary antisuicide policies, which are based on the notion that voluntary death is a mental health problem, and systematically lays out the dehumanizing consequences of psychiatrizing suicide prevention.

If suicide be deemed a problem, it is not a medical problem. Managing it as if it were a disease, or the result of a disease, will succeed only in debasing medicine and corrupting the law. Pretending to be the pride of medicine, psychiatry is its shame.

• 1 Bekijk alle specificaties

Anti-Psychiatry

Rating: 0 / 5 | Prijs: € 22.99

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 a Uiterlijk 13 december in huis .. MEER INFO

The Medicalization of Everyday Life

Rating: 0 / 5 | Prijs: € 27.95

A collection of essays that chronicles the author s long campaign against the orthodoxies of psychiatry from medicine to magic to medicine as social control this book delves into the history of medicalization including the discovery of drug addiction persecutions for witchcraft and Uiterlijk 13 december in huis .. MEER INFO

The Meaning of Mind

Rating: 0 / 5 | Prijs: € 21

Here thomas szasz demonstrates the futility of analysing the mind as a collection of brain functions he warns that we misconstrue the dialogue within as a problem of consciousness and neuroscience and do so at our peril thomas szasz demonstrates the futility of analysing the mind as a collection 2 - 3 weken .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 30 oktober 2011

Aantal pagina's: 148

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Thomas Szasz

Tweede Auteur: Thomas Szasz

Hoofduitgeverij: Syracuse University Press

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 146 mm

Product hoogte: 19 mm

Product lengte: 229 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 140 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 227 mm

Verpakking lengte: 216 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 340 g

EAN: 9780815609902

---