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.

"RIGHT WING EXTREMIST DISORDER."

Was Hitler "Mad"?

Well it would be hard for him to have been since there really is no such thing as "madness" (apart from the 1980s English pop band)  - as we all discover at some point in our lives.

"Its the psychogram of a person with a narcisstic/psychopathic
personal disorder combined with a high IQ."

[This was an Internet quote regarding "Proper Muppet" Adolf Hitler - author of "Mein Shaft" - which is what he should have fallen down at birth........
"Everybody wants to rule the world; but only Hitler tried"...... .......].......

My shrink said he just had the plain RIGHT WING EXTREMIST DISORDER.

If you ask me - he was simply the wrong man, in the wrong place, at the wrong time....

("No Hitler, No Holocaust" - Professor Ian Kershaw. Maybe this is so. Hitler was sadly the leader of the successful Counter Revolution to the Communist German Revolution of 1918. But an equally important point to make is this - Hitler would have been NOTHING without people who obeyed him).

One of the serious points I am making is:-

That there are no such things as "Personality Disorders" - whether "Narcissistic" or of other kinds....

Such things are determined arbitrarily.
They are STIGMATIZING LABELS and they precede the behaviour that they purportedly describe.

This is MEANINGLESS, FAKE, PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC LANGUAGE!.....

AND the fake DISCOURSE of "Psychiatry" is POTENTIALLY as dangerous as the discourse of fascism eventually was.

This was a warning that Szasz was giving us!.......
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"Psychiatric" diagnonsenses can also serve as the thinly disguised language of EXCULPATION.....as we can see here.......

ALSO and very sadly -

"Psychiatry" gives us the absurd MEDICALIZATION OF BELIEFS.
(As well as the "Medicalization of Everyday Life.")

A thoroughly wicked and ridiculous concept.
Objectionable beliefs are not medical problems. 
Neither can they be changed by medical means.

Such things mark the 20th century as a century of terrible cultural backwardness as compared to others preceding it.

We are supposed to be in a different century now. We are still so often mired in the rubbish of the preceding one.

A century that was undoubtedly the worst humanity ever saw.
The previous century will take us some time to recover from.

"Psychiatry", "Mental Illness", "Mental Health" - all of these ideologies are INTELLECTUAL DOGSHIT that must be painstakingly cleaned up from our global culture.


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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.