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  • WORDS TO THE WISE
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    WORDS TO THE WISE
    THOMAS SZASZ
    "The human mind abhors the absence of explanation, but full understanding is never possible. Human understanding is likely to be incomplete at best and, more often, utterly fallacious. To make matters worse, it is likely to be supported as truth and wisdom by religious and scientific authority, intellectual fashion and social convention. In Words to the Wise, Thomas Szasz offer...

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  • MY MADNESS SAVED ME
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    MY MADNESS SAVED ME
    THOMAS SZASZ
    "The vast literature on Virginia Woolf's life, work, and marriage falls into two groups. A large majority is certain that she was mentally ill, and a small minority is equally certain that she was not mentally ill but was misdiagnosed by psychiatrists. In this daring exploration of Woolf's life and work, Thomas Szasz--famed for his radical critique of psychiatric concepts, coer...

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  • LIBERATION BY OPPRESSION
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    LIBERATION BY OPPRESSION
    THOMAS SZASZ
    Originally called mad-doctoring, psychiatry began in the seventeenth century with the establishing of madhouses and the legal empowering of doctors to incarcerate persons denominated as insane. Until the end of the nineteenth century, every relationship between psychiatrist and patient was based on domination and coercion, as between master and slave. Psychiatry, its emblem the...

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  • A LEXICON OF LUNACY
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    A LEXICON OF LUNACY
    THOMAS SZASZ
    Thomas Szasz is renowned for his critical exploration of the literal language of psychiatry and his rejection of officially sanctioned definitions of mental illness. His work has initiated a continuing debate in the psychiatric community whose essence is often misunderstood. Szasz's critique of the established view of mental illness is rooted in an insistent distinction between...

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  • FAITH IN FREEDOM
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    FAITH IN FREEDOM
    THOMAS SZASZ
    The libertarian philosophy of freedom is characterized by two fundamental beliefs: the right to be left alone and the duty to leave others alone. Psychiatric practice routinely violates both of these beliefs. It is based on the notion that self-ownership—exemplified by suicide—is a not an inherent right, but a privilege subject to the review of psychiatrists as representatives ...

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  • ESQUIZOFRENIA: EL SIMBOLO SAGRADO DE LA PSIQUIATRIA
    ESQUIZOFRENIA: EL SIMBOLO SAGRADO DE LA PSIQUIATRIA
    S. SZASZ THOMAS
    Esta obra ofrece un panorama general de la psiquiatría moderna com- prendiendo el concepto como coerción social y opresión médica en el desarrollo de la vida cotidiana y la terapia clínica. El núcleo del trabajo del Dr. Thomas Szasz se sitúa en la línea divisoria que separa a la psiquiatría tradicional (partiendo de los trabajos de Freud, Jung, Adler, etc.) de la nueva antipsiq...
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    $205.00

  • THE SECOND SIN
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    THE SECOND SIN
    THOMAS S. SZASZ
    Originally published in 1973, Thomas Szasz’s collection of aphorisms, definitions and maxims strikes at the heart of confusion, mystification and humbug, in the areas of human relations, language, thought and psychiatry. The book covers the remarkable range of one of America’s most original thinkers and controversial psychiatrists of the twentieth century. It represents an impo...

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