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.

DE MORTUIS NIL NISI BONUM.

DE MORTUIS NIL NISI BONUM.

[Of the dead one should only speak good.]

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Of the dead one should only speak good.
In the case of Szasz - this is particularly easy to live up to!

Szasz's books are of the highest quality and his ideas have the potential to avoid a great deal of suffering. He has rendered humanity a great service with his work.

Szasz's views' are perhaps sometimes being misrepresented and him and his views are being denigrated from beyond the grave.

A good example is Szasz's current wiki artricle.

It has an ENTIRE PART entitled "Criticism" at an early point in the article.

Is that the case with Chomsky's wiki or Newton's wiki?

The things that make up this part of the wiki article in my view do not really come under the definition of "critique" or "criticism".

Perhaps "mudslinging" would be a more apt title for this part of the wiki article.

Chomsky as a thinker is accorded far more attention than Szasz.

I think Szasz is absolutely worthy of an equal amount of attention.

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His ideas are for all of us!
For they are nothing more than ideas - systematised LOGIC!

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