The Resource Antipsychiatry : quackery squared, Thomas Szasz
Antipsychiatry : quackery squared, Thomas Szasz
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The item Antipsychiatry : quackery squared, Thomas Szasz represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
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- Summary
- "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. Led by the Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing, the antipsychiatrists used the term to attract attention to themselves and to 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 argues that his writings belong to neither psychiatry nor antipsychiatry, They stem from conceptual analysis, social-political criticism, and common sense."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 188 pages)
- Contents
-
- Antipsychiatrie : querulantenwahnsinn
- Antipsychiatry : alternative psychiatry
- The doctor of irresponsibility
- The trickster and the tricked
- Antipsychiatry and anti-art
- Antipsychiatry abroad
- Isbn
- 9780815651314
- Label
- Antipsychiatry : quackery squared
- Title
- Antipsychiatry
- Title remainder
- quackery squared
- Statement of responsibility
- Thomas Szasz
- Subject
-
- Antipsychiatrie
- Antipsychiatrie
- Antipsychiatry
- Antipsychiatry
- Coercion
- Electronic books
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases | General
- Krankheitsbegriff
- Kwakzalverij
- MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Diseases
- MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Psychiatry | General
- Philosophy, Medical
- Psychiatry -- ethics
- Psychiatry -- trends
- Psychische Störung
- Psychische stoornissen
- Psychotherapy -- ethics
- Quackery
- Selbstverantwortung
- MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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. Led by the Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing, the antipsychiatrists used the term to attract attention to themselves and to 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 argues that his writings belong to neither psychiatry nor antipsychiatry, They stem from conceptual analysis, social-political criticism, and common sense."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- E7B
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1920-2012
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Szasz, Thomas
- Dewey number
- 616.89
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RC437.5
- LC item number
- .S885 2009eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- NLM call number
-
- 2009 K-671
- WM 62
- NLM item number
- S996a 2009
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Antipsychiatry
- Psychiatry
- Psychiatry
- Coercion
- Philosophy, Medical
- Psychotherapy
- Quackery
- HEALTH & FITNESS
- MEDICAL
- MEDICAL
- MEDICAL
- MEDICAL
- MEDICAL
- Antipsychiatry
- Antipsychiatrie
- Psychische Störung
- Krankheitsbegriff
- Selbstverantwortung
- Antipsychiatrie
- Kwakzalverij
- Psychische stoornissen
- Label
- Antipsychiatry : quackery squared, Thomas Szasz
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Antipsychiatrie : querulantenwahnsinn -- Antipsychiatry : alternative psychiatry -- The doctor of irresponsibility -- The trickster and the tricked -- Antipsychiatry and anti-art -- Antipsychiatry abroad
- Control code
- 759158738
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 188 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780815651314
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 22573/ctt1hzbd8z
- 0291a66f-c265-44bd-926a-bd52b978489e
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)759158738
- Label
- Antipsychiatry : quackery squared, Thomas Szasz
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Antipsychiatrie : querulantenwahnsinn -- Antipsychiatry : alternative psychiatry -- The doctor of irresponsibility -- The trickster and the tricked -- Antipsychiatry and anti-art -- Antipsychiatry abroad
- Control code
- 759158738
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 188 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780815651314
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 22573/ctt1hzbd8z
- 0291a66f-c265-44bd-926a-bd52b978489e
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)759158738
Subject
- Antipsychiatrie
- Antipsychiatrie
- Antipsychiatry
- Antipsychiatry
- Coercion
- Electronic books
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases | General
- Krankheitsbegriff
- Kwakzalverij
- MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Diseases
- MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Psychiatry | General
- Philosophy, Medical
- Psychiatry -- ethics
- Psychiatry -- trends
- Psychische Störung
- Psychische stoornissen
- Psychotherapy -- ethics
- Quackery
- Selbstverantwortung
- MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine
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