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.
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  • "Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good", James Davies, 2013.

"The Hospitals That Make You Sick"

I am at present RECOVERING from being in a hospital.

Yes. Totally illogical isn't it? Welcome to the pure illogicality of the crime that is "psychiatry".

These are - in the title of a "Big Issue" article of the year 2000 -
"The Hospitals That Make You Sick."

I still have a photocopy of the extensive article.

In 2000, I photocopied it and sent it in a letter to a "Psychiatrist" who had happily imprisoned me and thousands of innocents time and time again.

The "doctor" gave me no reaction or recognition of having received this wonderful article.

Did people like this join the medical profession to be jailors?

These prisons - and they still exist today in 2013 - are such a complete waste of resources at a time when supposedly we are lacking in funds and resources.

This practice of incarcerating large numbers of people without trial in fake hospitals for no reason other than being an inconvenience or an annoyance sadly begun - at least as a fake medical practice - principally in England.

Later on, the Soviets and many others used this fake medical discipline to incarcerate "enemies of the state". In the "West" victims of capitalism still fall victim to this criminal system far more innocently.

It is to be hoped that England will be a place where the movement to end this practise will prosper and prevail.

The answer is to establish the human rights for which World War 2 was fought.

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It makes me laugh when people say :-

"What do you want us to do instead?"

This is like someone saying :-

"What do you want me to do instead of kicking your head in as you lie supine on the floor?"

I am clearly not required to answer anything other than the following :-

"What you should do instead is simply not kick my head in whilst I lie supine on the floor!"

:D

If I were again asked the absurd question :-

"What should we do instead?"

I would reply :

"Give people their freedom!".

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I am an amateur FILOSOFER. (I am not really a sofa). I dropped out of Cambridge University though I got an "S" grade in the entrance examination. I eventually received a 1st class Bachelors degree elsewhere. I received A.H.R.B. funding to pursue postgraduate study, but did not do so. Please enjoy my blogs. To parafrase Orwell, I am trying to make political blogging into an art. My intellectual heroes are Kenan Malik, Thomas Szasz and Noam Chomsky. I have made some mistakes in my life - and I would like to apologize wholeheartedly and from the depths of my cushions for any problems I may have caused and may be causing for anyone anywhere.