
The Myth of Mental Illness
Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
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Tom Parks
The 50th anniversary edition of the most influential critique of psychiatry every written, with a new preface on the age of Prozac and Ritalin and the rise of designer drugs, plus two bonus essays.
Thomas Szasz's classic book revolutionized thinking about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. By diagnosing unwanted behavior as mental illness, psychiatrists, Szasz argues, absolve individuals of responsibility for their actions and instead blame their alleged illness. He also critiques Freudian psychology as a pseudoscience and warns against the dangerous overreach of psychiatry into all aspects of modern life.
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Ironically the M.D. proves all too well that we reward psychiatrists far too easily for their perceived ideological victories in the form of selling their snake oil to us. This book, his most classic brand of that oil, is more historical than scientific, and as a historical theory it contains no rigor nor shame about its lack thereof. A meager piece of entertainment for the atheistic libertarian. Go read some R.D. Laing instead
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