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The Age of Madness: The History of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization, Presented in Selected Textsby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0385046383 (0-385-04638-3)
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Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatryby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0815602472 (0-8156-0247-2)
Softcover, Syracuse Univ Pr
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Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushersby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0815607687 (0-8156-0768-7)
Softcover, Syracuse Univ Pr
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Coercion As Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatryby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0765803798 (0-7658-0379-8)
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Faith in Freedom: Libertarian Principles and Psychiatric Practicesby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0765802449 (0-7658-0244-9)
Hardcover, Transaction Pub
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Heresiesby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0385111622 (0-385-11162-2)
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Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Manby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0815602561 (0-8156-0256-1)
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Karl Kraus and the Soul-Doctors: A Pioneer Critic and His Criticism of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysisby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0807101966 (0-8071-0196-6)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatryby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0765805405 (0-7658-0540-5)
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The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality, and Neuroscienceby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 081560775X (0-8156-0775-X)
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In The Meaning of Mind, Thomas Szasz argues that only as a verb does the word mind mean something in the real world, namely, attending or heeding. Minding is the ability to pay attention and adapt to one's environment by using language to communicate with others and oneself. Viewing the mind as a potentially infinite variety of self-conversations is the key that unlocks many of the mysteries we associate with this concept. Modern neuroscience is a misdirected effort to explain mind in terms of brain functions. The claims and conclusions of the diverse academics and scientists who engage in this enterprise undermine the concepts of moral agency and personal responsibility. Szasz shows that the cognitive function of speech is to enable us to talk not only to others but to ourselves (in short, to be our own interlocutor), and that the view that mind is brainembraced by both the scientific community and the popular pressis not an empirical finding but a rhetorical ruse concealing humanity's unceasing struggle to control persons by controlling the vocabulary. The discourse of brain-mind, unlike the discourse of man as moral agent, protects people from the dilemmas intrinsic to holding themselves responsible for their own actions and holding others responsible for theirs. Because we live in an age blessed by the fruits of materialist science, reductionist explanations of the relationship between brain and mind are more popular today than ever, making this book an indispensible addition to the seemingly recondite debate about, simply, who we are.
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My Madness Saved Me: The Madness And Marriage of Virginia Woolfby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0765803216 (0-7658-0321-6)
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Szasz argues that Virginia Woolf was a victim neither of mental illness, nor psychiatry, nor her husband--three ways she is regularly portrayed. He finds her to be an intelligent and self-assertive person, a moral agent who used mental illness, psychiatry, and her husband to fashion for herself a life of her own choosing. This is not to impute to Virginia Woolf some sort of limitless freedom of the will, nor is it to deny that the cultural and social milieu in which she grew up and lived had a profound impact on her psyche and her sense of the life choices open to her. It is only to remind us of the primacy of Virginia Woolf as an active, goal-directed, moral agent, responsible equally for her madness-badness and her genius-creativity.
Do we explain achievement when we attribute it to the fictitious entity we call "genius"? Do we explain failure when we attribute it to the fictitious entity we call "madness"? Or do we deceive ourselves the same way that the person deceives himself when he attributes the easy ignition of hydrogen to its being "flammable"? Szasz interprets Virginia Woolf's life and work as expressions of her character, and her character as the "product" of her free will. He offers this view as a corrective against the prevailing, ostensibly scientific view that attributes both her "madness" and her "genius" to biological-genetic causes. We tend to attribute exceptional achievement to genius, and exceptional failure to madness. Both, says Szasz, are fictitious entities.
Thomas Szasz is professor of psychiatry emeritus at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York and adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. His A Lexicon of Lunacy, Liberation by Oppression, Words to the Wise, and Faith in Freedom, are available from Transaction.
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The Myth of Mental Illness:Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conductby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0060141964 (0-06-014196-4)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in Americaby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0815607636 (0-8156-0763-6)
Softcover, Syracuse Univ Pr
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Psychiatric Justiceby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0815602316 (0-8156-0231-6)
Softcover, Syracuse Univ Pr
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Psychiatric Slaveryby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0815605110 (0-8156-0511-0)
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Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatryby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0815602243 (0-8156-0224-3)
Softcover, Syracuse Univ Pr
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Second Sinby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0710077572 (0-7100-7757-2)
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Sex by Prescriptionby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0140059431 (0-14-005943-1)
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Sex by Prescription: The Startling Truth About Today's Sex Therapyby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0815602502 (0-8156-0250-2)
Softcover, Syracuse Univ Pr
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The Theology of Medicine: The Political-Philosophical Foundations of Medical Ethicsby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0815602251 (0-8156-0225-1)
Softcover, Syracuse Univ Pr
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Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionaryby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0765802171 (0-7658-0217-1)
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In this book, Szasz tackles a problem intrinsic to the human condition. What problem? In the words of the American humorist Josh Billings: "The trouble with people is not what they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so." Many of Thomas Szasz's books have been devoted to exposing what "ain't so" about mental illness and psychiatry. Here, Szasz applies the same skeptical spirit to the larger problem of people knowing much that "ain't so." About addiction, Szasz observes: "If a person ingests a drug prohibited by legislators and claims that it makes him feel better, that proves he is an addict; if he ingests a drug prescribed by a psychiatrist and claims that it makes him feel better, that proves that mental illness is a biomedical disease." About beauty: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; ugliness is in the personality of the beholden." About libertarians: "Libertarians regard liberty as contingent on the right to property; scientists regard disease as contingent on pathological alteration of the body. All libertarians reject the notion of 'socialist liberty,' yet many accept the notion of 'mental disease.'" Or about power: "Many of my critics say I am hostile to medicine and physicians. They are wrong. I am hostile only to the power of the medical profession and of physicians."
Szasz notes that despite enormous social pressure for a shared perspective on how the world works and how we ought to live, every person'sáunderstanding, not only of himself, but of the world about him, is different from every other person's. This volume shows how the quest for truth is a never-ending challenge, and must presuppose an honest acceptance of questions, problems, and uncertainty.
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