The therapeutic state
psychiatry in the mirror of current events
by Thomas Stephen Szasz · first published 1984
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Chiefly reprints of articles originally published 1965-1983. Includes bibliographies and index.
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Szasz's opinions on addiction and 'the therapeutic state' were some of the most clear of any from the field of psychiatry I've heard yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz#Szasz's_main_argu...
on “A psychiatrist who didn’t believe in mental illness (2013)” ↗Indeed. It went the way Thomas Szasz described when he wrote The Therapeutic State [0]. It's a common trend in covertly authoritarian governments, but not only, to be able to remove people from the public without a fair trial: just question their sanity and have a doctor sign them…
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