Libros de Thomas S. Szasz

La Fabricación De La Locura

• 372 páginas
• Estudio comparativo de la Inquisición y el movimiento en defensa de la salud mental.

Closed Systems And Open Minds

• Social anthropology, defined operationally in terms of what social anthropologists have done in the last fifty years, is the study and comparison of tribal societies and of small fields of social life with emphasis on the role of custom

Pain And Pleasure

• In this work Dr. Szasz dispels popular and scientific confusion about what pain and pleasure actually are. Demonstrating the doubtful value of such distinctions as real and Imagined pain, or physical and intellectual pleasure, he analyses the basic concep...

Psychiatric Justice

Psychiatric Slavery

• In this short work, Dr. Szasz takes aim at conventional psychiatry, and at the attendent system of..

The Theology Of Medicine: The Political-philosophical Foundations Of Medical Ethics

Psychotherapy Classics: Landmark Articles In The History Of Psychotherapy And Counseling

• Psychotherapy Classics. Featuring contributions from some of the most influential and enigmatic

Ideology And Insanity: Essays On The Psychiatric Dehumanization Of Man

• This book is a collection of the earliest essays of Thomas Szasz, in which he staked out his..

Our Right To Drugs: The Case For A Freemarket

• In Our Right to Drugs, Szasz shows how the present drug war started at the beginning of this..

Anti-freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism Of Psychoanalysis And Psychiatry

Law, Liberty, And Psychiatry: An Inquiry Into The Social Uses Of Mental Health Practices

• Dr. Thomas Szasz on the shortcomings of commitment procedures, and the inadequacies of..

Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution Of Drugs, Addicts, And Pushers

• Thomas Szasz suggests that governments have overstepped their bounds in labeling and prohibiting..

Pharmacracy: Medicine And Politics In America

• The modern penchant for transforming human problems into "diseases" and judicial sanctions into..

The Medicalization Of Everyday Life: Selected Essays

• Defining medicalization as the perception of nonmedical conditions as medical problems and..

Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control Of Society's Unwanted

• Re-examining psychiatric interventions from a cultural-historical and political-economic..

Myth Of Mental Illness, The

• 368 páginas
• The most influential critique of psychiatry ever written, Thomas Szasz's classic book revolutionized thinking about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. By diagnosing unwanted behavior as mental illness,...

Schizophrenia

• Szasz argues that the word schizophrenia does not stand for a genuine disease, that psychiatry has invented the concept as a sacred symbol to justify the practice of locking up people against their will and treating them with a variety of unwanted, unsoli...

Fatal Freedom

• In this thoughtful and compelling analysis, the world's foremost critic of coercions of the psychiatric institution defends a patient's right to choose life or death. Fatal Freedom is an eloquent defense of every individual's right to choose...

Meaning Of Mind

• In this brilliantly original and highly accessible work, Thomas Szasz demonstrates the futility of analyzing the mind as a collection of brain functions. Instead of trying to unravel the riddle of a mythical entity called “the mind,&acir...

Manufacture Of Madness

• In this seminal work, Dr. Szasz examines the similarities between the Inquisition and institutional psychiatry. His purpose is to show "that the belief in mental illness and the social actions to which it leads have the same moral implications and...