"Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse." – Thomas Szasz
"Mental Illness" is one of humanity's most harmful lies. "Psychiatry" (a Victorian Ancient Greek word meaning "Mind Healing") is the pseudo-science and crime that propagates this lie. All people of conscience should continue to work for the total abolition of "Psychiatry" as an official medical discipline; and to end its inherent lies and very serious world-wide human rights abuses. There have been millions of victims of this crime. We must hope that one day there will be no more victims.
Links
- http://www.antipsychiatry.org
- http://www.szasz.com/manifesto.html
- http://www.szasz.com
- http://theszaszblog.blogspot.com
- CCHR
- Blue Panthers
- Network Against Psychiatric Assault
- Speak Out Against Psychiatry
- Mind Freedom
- Psych Rights
- World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
- Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
- European Network of (Ex)Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
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.
Great Quote
Great quote:
"Psychiatry is intellectually and morally bankrupt.
They have no valid response to their critics, but instead resort to spin and tawdry marketing tactics to shore up their crumbling sand castle.
But just as the tide cleans the foreshore, so the light of logic and truth, and the outspoken protests of its survivors, will one day wash the world of the blight known as psychiatry."
Dr. Phil Hickey
His website is "Behaviourism and Mental Health" : http://behaviorismandmentalhealth.com/
About Me
- Citizen Sofa
- 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.