Bibliography

  • "The Myth of Mental Illness", Thomas Szasz, 1961.
  • "The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement", Thomas Szasz, 1970.
  • "Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry", Thomas Szasz, 1976.
  • "Anti-Freud - Karl Kraus' Criticisms of Psychiatry", Thomas Szasz, 1976.
  • "The Theology of Medicine", Thomas Szasz, 1977.
  • "The Myth of Psychotherapy", Thomas Szasz, 1978.
  • "Insanity - the Idea and its Consequences", Thomas Szasz, 1987.
  • "Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market", Thomas Szasz, 1992.
  • "The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality and Neuroscience", Thomas Szasz, 1996.
  • "Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide", Thomas Szasz, 1999.
  • "Faith in Freedom", Thomas Szasz, 2004
  • "The Medicalisation of Everyday Life", Essays by Thomas Szasz, 2007.
  • "Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry", Thomas Szasz, 2007.
  • "Psychiatry: the Science of Lies", Thomas Szasz, 2008.
  • "Antipsychiatry: Quackery Squared", Thomas Szasz, 2009.
  • "Suicide Prohibition: The Shame of Medicine", Thomas Szasz, 2011.
  • "Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good", James Davies, 2013.

"Anorexia Nervosa" DOES NOT AND CANNOT EXIST.

"Anorexia Nervosa" DOES NOT AND CANNOT EXIST.


IF all that is being observed is SELF-STARVATION then that is all that is occuring. There is NO illness.


Was Bobby Sands "DIAGNONSENSED" with "Anorexia Politica"?


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This logic applies to all so-called "mental illnesses".


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Szasz's insights apply to ALL so-called "mental illnesses". Even if you feel empowered by saying that you "have" "ADHD" - IF it simply does not exist in any way whatsoever then this reality cannot be changed.

NOTA BENE - "Sectioning"


http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/dec/09/day-mental-health-professionals

"Sectioning" under the UK "Mental Health" Act is:-

- the effective temporary destruction of a human being;
- a crime and;
- a crime against humanity.

The people involved in it are criminals.

It must be abolished as soon as possible.


There is simply no such thing as mental illness.

http://www.szasz.com/manifesto.html


Don't think it couldn't happen to you.
It could happen to ANYONE including YOU and it is a CRIME.
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IT IS A CLEAR, FLAGRANT AND TOTAL BREACH of an old English legal principle of HABEAS CORPUS which has been a strong principle since at least 1215 and Magna Carta.

Truly truly wicked in our time.

This means "the body will be present" at a legal trial before detention by the state.

This was to prevent arbitrary detention by the state - and is a basis of human rights today.

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"THE MAGNA CARTA, THE PETITION OF RIGHTS, AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS ARE DOCUMENTS WHICH ARE HELD IN VENERATION BY DEMOCRATS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD."


NELSON MANDELA.


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