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Psychiatry - The Science of Lies (Paperback)
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Psychiatry - The Science of Lies (Paperback)
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Loot Price R325
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For more than a half century Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his
career to a thorough and provocative critique of the practice of
psychiatry. In many ways his latest work, Psychiatry: The Science
of Lies, is a culmination of his life's work: to portray the
integral role of deception in the history and practice of
psychiatry. Szasz argues that the diagnosis and treatment of mental
illness stands in the same relationship to the diagnosis and
treatment of bodily illness that the forgery of a painting stands
to the original masterpiece. Art historians, museum directors,
private collectors, and the legal system all seek to distinguish
forgeries from originals. Those concerned with medicine on the
other hand--physicians, patients, politicians, health insurance
providers, and legal professionals--take the opposite stance when
faced with the challenge of distinguishing everyday problems in
living from diseases of the body, systematically authenticating
nondiseases as diseases. The boundary between disease and
nondisease - genuine and imitation, original and copy, truth and
falsehood -- thus becomes arbitrary, shifting, and uncertain. With
a wealth of well-researched new evidence, Szasz examines the ways
in which dishonesty and misrepresentation have permeated all
aspects of psychiatric practice: the doctors, the patients, and
even at times those who work to uncover psychiatric abuse.
Delivering his sophisticated analysis in lucid prose and with a
sharp wit, Szasz continues to engage and challenge readers of all
backgrounds.
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