
Psychiatry
The Science of Lies
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Tom Weiner
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Thomas Szasz
For more than half a century, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, is a culmination of his life’s work: to portray the integral role of deception in the history and practice of psychiatry.
Szasz argues that the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness stands in the same relationship to the diagnosis and treatment of bodily illness that the forgery of a painting does to the original masterpiece. Art historians and the legal system seek to distinguish forgeries from originals. Those concerned with medicine, on the other hand - physicians, patients, politicians, health-insurance providers, and legal professionals - take the opposite stance when faced with the challenge of distinguishing everyday problems in living from bodily diseases, systematically authenticating non-diseases as diseases. The boundary between disease and non-disease - genuine and imitation, truth and falsehood - thus becomes arbitrary and uncertain.
There is neither glory nor profit in correctly demarcating what counts as medical illness and medical healing from what does not. Individuals and families wishing to protect themselves from medically and politically authenticated charlatanry are left to their own intellectual and moral resources to make critical decisions about human dilemmas miscategorized as “mental diseases” and about medicalized responses misidentified as “psychiatric treatments.”
Delivering his sophisticated analysis in lucid prose and with a sharp wit, Szasz continues to engage and challenge readers of all backgrounds.
Thomas Szasz is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York’s Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York.
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I LEARNED ALOT I DIDNT KNOW AT FIRST.
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great companion to The Myth of Mental Illness
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Not what I expected
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Outdated Ideas. Not worth investigating in 2021.
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interesante, pero...
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Brilliant
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Is there anything you would change about this book?
The content is a well known sumamry of Szasz's ideas and concepts. Mental illness as metaphor and the damage done to libertarian ideals by the controll of the psyhciatric elite. The new religion of the state.What was one of the most memorable moments of Psychiatry?
His history of the development of mad doctoring.Would you be willing to try another one of Tom Weiner’s performances?
No - very disappointing. Trying to fit Szasz's own voice in would make more sense. His phrasing lends far more credibility to his ideas. Weiner talks too fast and with almost no sense of the power of the story he is telling - very disappointed.If this book were a movie would you go see it?
No - not able to made into a moviepsychiatry spoiled by incompetent narrator
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An Honest Psychiatrist
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Freud never took psychoanalysis as a natural science.
I am very disappointed with this book that was written by a man who gave so much to psychiatry in his other works
The lier blaming others for lies.
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Ignorance
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