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
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  • "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.

"Freedom is absolutely necessary for progress".

"Freedom is absolutely necessary for progress in science and the liberal arts."

Benedictus Spinoza.

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A "Citizen Sofa" Comment on recent new scientific "research".

RE:
"Older fatherhood: something interesting for society to consider."
23 August 2012. The Guardian.

This article is non-scientific. The so-called data involved is totally compromised by the fact that there are no such things whatsoever as "schizophrenia" nor "autism".

A point that my conscience as well as extreme obviousness compels me to continue to make is that "MENTAL ILLNESS" SIMPLY DOES NOT EXIST.

To fill in the blanks - that even a "BLANKETY BLANK" contestant should be able to fill in - the D.N.A. data referred to in the article is totally meaningless because it is qualified as being from people who have totally non-existent "conditions" / "illnesses" / "diseases".

Freedom of speech is more or less an absolute for me.

You have to take the rough with the smooth. As Father Ted said. About something else.......

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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.