Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry

ISBN-13: 9781412810500 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 294 str.

Thomas Szasz

Opis

Understanding the history of psychiatry requires an accurate view of its function and purpose. In this provocative new study of this nominal medical specialty, Szasz challenges conventional beliefs about psychiatry. He asserts that, in fact, psychiatrists are not concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of bonafide illnesses. He contends that the truth about psychiatry, its self-evident ends, and the means used to achieve them is socially unacceptable. Psychiatric tradition, social expectation, and the law make it clear that coercion is the profession's determining characteristi

Spis treści

Introduction: Force and Freedom1. Mental Hospitalization: Therapeutic Imprisonment 2. Shock and Commotion: Terror Therapy 3. Moral Treatment: Renaming Coercion 4. Dauerschlaf: Requiescant in Pace 5. Iatrogenic Epilepsy: And Other Electrical- Therapeutic Miracles 6. Lobotomy: Cerebral Spaying 7. Psychopharmacology I: Psychiatric Drugs 8. Psychopharmacology II: Psychedelic Drugs Conclusion: Psychiatry—A House United

O autorze

Frank Villafana