Professor Thomas Szasz on Involuntary Commitment
“Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment,…
“Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment,…
“My argument was limited to the proposition that mental illness is a myth, whose function it is to disguise and thus render more palatable the…
“The discovery that all mental diseases are brain diseases would mean the disappearance of psychiatry into neurology.” “I have long maintained that the child psychiatrist…
“The discovery that all mental diseases are brain diseases would mean the disappearance of psychiatry into neurology.” “No behavior or misbehavior is a disease or…
“The primary function and goal of the DSMs is to lend credibility to the claim that certain behaviors, or more correctly, misbehaviors, are mental disorders…