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Thomas S. Szasz - The Man and His Ideas (Hardcover)
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Thomas S. Szasz - The Man and His Ideas (Hardcover)
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As it entered the 1960s, American institutional psychiatry was
thriving, with a high percentage of medical students choosing the
field. But after Thomas S. Szasz published his masterwork in 1961,
The Myth of Mental Illness, the psychiatric world was thrown into
chaos. Szasz enlightened the world about what he called the "myth
of mental illness." His point was not that no one is mentally ill,
or that people labeled as mentally ill do not exist. Instead he
believed that diagnosing people as mentally ill was inconsistent
with the rules governing pathology and the classification of
disease. He asserted that the diagnosis of mental illness is a type
of social control, not medical science. The editors were uniquely
close to Szasz, and here they gather, for the first time, a group
of their peers-experts on psychiatry, psychology, rhetoric, and
semiotics-to elucidate Szasz's body of work. Thomas S. Szasz: The
Man and His Ideas examines his work and legacy, including new
material on the man himself and the seeds he planted. They discuss
Szasz's impact on their thinking about the distinction between
physical and mental illness, addiction, the insanity plea,
schizophrenia, and implications for individual freedom and
responsibility. This important volume offers insight into and
understanding of a man whose ideas were far beyond his time.
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