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Ideology and Insanity

by Thomas Stephen Szasz

This volume contains early essays, going back more than thirty years, in which the author staked out his position on 'the nature, scope, methods & values of psychiatry': * Preface * Preface to the 1st Edition * Acknowledgements * Introduction * The Myth of Mental Illness * The Mental Health Ethic * The Rhetoric of Rejection * Mental Health as Ideology * What Psychiatry Can & Cannot Do * Bootlegging Humanistic Values Thru Psychiatry * The Insanity Plea & the Insanity Verdict * Involuntary Mental Hospitalization * Mental Health Services in the School * Psychiatry, the State & the University * Psychiatric Classification as a Strategy of Personal Constraint * Whither Psychiatry? * Index

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