books by Thomas Stephen Szasz     books:     Thomas Stephen Szasz      Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers Thomas Stephen Szasz Syracuse University Press, 2003 ceremonial chemistry Explains what the war on drugs is really about - and it's not drugs. Highly educational, trancends our brainwashing.             The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement Thomas Stephen Szasz Syracuse University Press, 1997 A Totally Surprising and Amazing Book I first came across this book about 15 years ago while going through some stacks in the library of a community college in San Bruno CA. What stunned me at first was the equation of modern psychiatry being the child (i.e. direct decendant) of the Inquisition. I made a ...             The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary Thomas Stephen Szasz Open Court Publishing Company, 1990 The entire mental health profession is a load of crap! Szasz is a psychiatrist who realized that the entire mental health profession is a load of crap - and so are politics, religion, and American sexual morality. In "The Untamed Tongue," Szasz dissects the language of almost every single field of human "knowledge," ...             Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences Thomas Stephen Szasz Syracuse University Press, 1997 Truth by iconoclasm, by fermed Thomas Szasz's writing career has been founded on reaching for the truth by smashing the false linguistic and conceptual idols of psychiatry. His "Myth of Mental Illness," published in 1961, still stands as one of the most clear and devastating indictments of modern ...             Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man Thomas Stephen Szasz Syracuse University Press, 1991 Excellent interpretation Memorization of the criticisms this book explores, will certainly instill in it's readers enough anger and intelligent contentions of the mental health system. Although not strikingly recent, the principles are the same, in whatever decade. This book reads very ...             Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide Thomas Stephen Szasz Syracuse University Press, 2002 An eloquent plea for our civil right to suicide. In his new book, FATAL FREEDOM, Dr. Thomas Szasz has taken the first step in destigmatizing suicide. In so doing he reminds us that not so long ago in England the failed suicide was punished by execution and his family deprived of his property. To "insanitize" him, ...             Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry Thomas Stephen Szasz Syracuse University Press, 1990 Freud's frauds uncovered by Vienna's HL Mencken The most telling line against Freudianism: "Psycho-analysts are the disease posing as the cure". Kraus had a real nose for blather and imposture, and dissected the Vienna circle around Freud as Mencken did the fundementalists. An exposure to Kraus is a sure and ...             The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing As Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression Thomas Stephen Szasz Syracuse University Press, 1988 A Much-Needed Debunking of Psychotherapy Dr. Szasz provides a refreshing break from the psychobabble that dominates so much public discourse. Psychology and psychiatry are not nearly as scientific as they pretend to be. There is a world of difference between the "mental health" field and the non-psychiatric ...             Sex by Prescription: The Startling Truth About Today's Sex Therapy Thomas Stephen Szasz Syracuse University Press, 1990 flawed, but fun Szasz's intentions here are good here; as usual he seeks to expose the messianic pretensions of the mental health movement. In this case, his target is the sex therapy and sex education rackets. Unfortunately, his partisanship sometimes leads to attacks based on shoddy ...             Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry Thomas Stephen Szasz Syracuse University Press, 1988 Neither cruel nor offensive: compassionate and rational T.S. Szasz reminds us that schizophrenia never existed in any medical records before the 20th century. It is an invention, or merely a new label for a kind of behaviour that previously belonged to other medical or social classifications. As most of his readers ...             Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry: An Inquiry into the Social Uses of Mental Health Practices Thomas Stephen Szasz Syracuse University Press, 1989             Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America Thomas Stephen Szasz Syracuse University Press, 2003 The Politics of Medicine This is a great book for laying to rest some orthodox but wrong ideas about our mental health. Szasz shows us that the orthodox way is not necessarily the right way. Certainly our own doctors are not going to blow the whistle on themselves, are they? This revolutionary ...             Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market Thomas Stephen Szasz Syracuse University Press, 1996 On Having the Freedom to Change Your Mind When I got a copy of this book - having forgotten about Dr. Szasz's breadth of outlook and singular erudition - I thought I was going to read a nice little political tract condemning the current American Drug Prohibition. "Our Right to Drugs" is that, of course, but ...             Psychiatric Slavery Thomas Stephen Szasz Syracuse University Press, 1998 Points out many inconsistencies regarding the Donaldson case In his book, Psychiatric Slavery, Szasz makes the comparison of involuntary institutionalization and slavery. The book primarily discusses the case of Kenneth Donaldson, which was a Supreme Court case on the right of treatment. The book discusses the various briefs ...             Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted Thomas Stephen Szasz John Wiley & Sons, 1994 Independent Thought Disorder The idea that those in our society whose beliefs differ from the norm must be drugged and/or imprisoned in the name of compassion is so widely accepted that it is rarely challenged. If Jesus Christ were alive today, he would have been arrested for disorderly conduct ...          products you might be interested in search for books consequences, dehumanization, prescription, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, schizophrenia      toavi.com    web we recommend ceremonial chemistry randomly chosen book: Creative Cloth Doll Faces: Using Paints, Pastels, Fibers, Beading, ...