Archive | September 4, 2007

Thomas Szasz has a New Masterpiece: COERCION AS CURE

Thomas Szasz, whose 1961 book The Myth of Mental Illness revolutionized thinking about involuntary commitment, has a new book out:  Coercion As Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry. Szasz helps people recognize how many issues portrayed solely as questions of mental health are actually questions of liberty.   He has helped open the eyes of generations of Americans to […]

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