Professor Thomas Szasz on Psychiatry in Our Justice System
“It is unlikely that toxicologists would be tolerated in courts of law if one would observe that he found a large quantity of arsenic in…
“It is unlikely that toxicologists would be tolerated in courts of law if one would observe that he found a large quantity of arsenic in…
“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…