Thomas Szasz is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse. The author of more than six hundred articles and twenty-eight books, he is widely recognized as the leading critic of the coercive interventions employed by the psychiatric establishment. His books include Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry: An Inquiry into the Social Uses of Mental Health Practices; The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement; Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market; and Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America.
One of the most thought-provoking books that I have ever read.--
"John B. Hart, senior professor of physics, Xavier University"
Szasz is not a debunker. He is a psychiatrist with moral integrity
and a sense of history.-- "Terence Tanner, The Tablet"
Szasz restores the human world of purpose and choice, of right and
wrong. Szasz has shown how the 'mentally ill' are simply another
instance of the age-old practice engaged in by societies to enhance
their cohesion at the cost of individual dignity and rights-the
scapegoating of stigmatized groups. . . . Against the current of a
culture that would deny it.-- "Ralph Raico, Laissez Faire
Books"
This is not just another drug book. . . . From the early chapters
on the ancient Greek sacrifices of scapegoats called pharmakos,
through the discovery of the term 'drug addiction' in twentieth
century America, to the helpful appendix prepared as a chronology
of man's drug history, Szasz takes the reader through a religious
scenario as imaginatively symbolic and insightfully analytic as any
morality play can be.-- "Ronald K. Siegel, Contemporary Psychology"
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