Thomas Szasz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 362503 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Thomas Szasz |
| PRENOMES | Thomas |
| SOBRENOME | Szasz |
| ASSINATURA | SZASZ T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | SUNY Upstate Medical University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 71 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 94 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1947 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Closed Systems and Open Minds
Contra el estado terapéutico
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo.
Varieties of psychiatric criticism
I present a brief overview of the history of psychiatric criticism, followed by a critique of modern objections to diverse psychiatric practices, focusing on the critics’ neglect of the core problematic issue – the psychiatrist’s role in depriving innocent persons of liberty
Primum Non Coercere
Relations between doctors of the body (physicians) and their patients are governed by contract and the principle of “primum non nocere” (first, do no harm). Relations between doctors of the mind (psychiatrists) have never been so governed: relations between these two parties have always rested on domination and coercion, authorized by the state. This is still the case. Once doctors and patients disagree about what counts as harm and what counts a…
The Titicut Follies
International audience
A bogus Benjamin Rush quote
Benjamin Rush (1746–1813), the ‘father’ of American psychiatry, is perhaps best known as the inventor of the ‘tranquilizing chair’. In recent decades, political and psychiatric activists have attributed a quotation to him in which he allegedly warned: ‘To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science.’ The source of this quotation cannot be found, and Rush’s rem…
Psychiatric Fraud and Force
E. Fuller Torrey is the most prominent advocate of forced psychiatric treatment in the United States today. He regards the use of coerced therapy as so medically and socially important that it justifies deceiving the patient. The author presents a critical review of Torrey’s propagandizing for the increased use of psychiatric force and fraud in “treating mental illness,” noting that in the past, Torrey had condemned these very practices. In his b…
Pharmacracy in America
Protecting patients against psychiatric intervention
Cleansing the modern heart
The "medical ethics" of Peter Singer
A plea for the cessation of the longest war of the twentieth century--the war on drugs
Mind, brain, and the problem of responsibility
The Healing Word
After presenting a brief review of the history of helping people solely by language (listening and speaking), the author reemphasizes the intrinsically verbal, noncoercive nature of the cure of souls (and of psychoanalysis as a model of psychotherapy); the intrinsically non-verbal, voluntary nature of the cure of bodies (medical treatment); and the intrinsically physical-and-verbal, coercive nature of the cure of minds (psychiatric treatment). Co…
The ethics of psychoanalysis
The origin of psychiatry
Idleness and lawlessness in the therapeutic state
Mental illness is still a myth
Noncoercive Psychiatry
The practice of psychiatry rests on two pillars: mental illness and involuntary mental hospitalization. Each of these elements justifies and reinforces the other. Traditionally, psychiatric coercion was unidirectional, consisting of the forcible incarceration of the individual in an insane asylum. Today, it is bidirectional, the forcible eviction of the individual from the mental hospital (which has become his home) supplementing his prior forcib…
The Medicalization of Sex
Like all human action, sexual acts involve the use of the human body, inviting the illusion that sexual problems are medical problems. Using sex crimes, surrogate motherhood, and the existential dilemmas created by AIDS as topical examples, the author presents a critique of the currently fashionable medicalization of sex
Suicide and Psychiatric Coercioni
Insanity
A plea for the cessation of the longest war of the twentieth century—The war on drugs
Insanity
The idea of insanity pervades every aspect of our daily lives. Thomas Szasz contends that the term actually functions as a euphemism for problems in living, as an excuse for crime and misbehaviour, as a stigma for invalidating adversaries - and, generally, as a metaphor and legal fiction. In Insanity, Dr. Szasz presents a systematic articulation of the precise character and practical consequences of the idea of mental illness. He shows the way to…
Justifying Coercion through Religion and Psychiatry
Before the Enlightenment, religious "truth" was generally regarded as a legitimate justification for coercion; since then, psychiatric "truth" is generally so regarded. In this article, I try to reconstruct the bygone mind-set that saw the controlling of deviants as a way to do good in God's name, and I compare it with the contemporary mind-set that sees controlling deviants as doing good in the name of mental health. I conclude that "we in the W…
The manufacture of madness
Intends to show that the belief in mental illness and the social actions to which it leads have the same moral implications and political consequences as had the belief in witchcraft and the social actions to which it led.
The uses of naming and the origin of the myth of mental illness
Mental illness is still a myth
Justifying Coercion through Religion and Psychiatry
Before the Enlightenment, religious "truth" was generally regarded as a legitimate justification for coercion; since then, psychiatric "truth" is generally so regarded. In this article, I try to reconstruct the bygone mind-set that saw the controlling of deviants as a way to do good in God's name, and I compare it with the contemporary mind-set that sees controlling deviants as doing good in the name of mental health. I conclude that "we in the W…
On The Experiences of the Analyst in the Psychoanalytic Situation
On the Psychoanalytic Theory of Instincts
(1952). On the Psychoanalytic Theory of Instincts. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 25-48
Psychiatric Fraud and Force
E. Fuller Torrey is the most prominent advocate of forced psychiatric treatment in the United States today. He regards the use of coerced therapy as so medically and socially important that it justifies deceiving the patient. The author presents a critical review of Torrey’s propagandizing for the increased use of psychiatric force and fraud in “treating mental illness,” noting that in the past, Torrey had condemned these very practices. In his b…
The psychiatrist as double agent
The Communication of Distress Between Child and Parent
Men and Machines
Noncoercive Psychiatry
The practice of psychiatry rests on two pillars: mental illness and involuntary mental hospitalization. Each of these elements justifies and reinforces the other. Traditionally, psychiatric coercion was unidirectional, consisting of the forcible incarceration of the individual in an insane asylum. Today, it is bidirectional, the forcible eviction of the individual from the mental hospital (which has become his home) supplementing his prior forcib…
The Medicalization of Sex
Like all human action, sexual acts involve the use of the human body, inviting the illusion that sexual problems are medical problems. Using sex crimes, surrogate motherhood, and the existential dilemmas created by AIDS as topical examples, the author presents a critique of the currently fashionable medicalization of sex
Mind, brain, and the problem of responsibility
Idleness and lawlessness in the therapeutic state
Suicide and Psychiatric Coercioni
Critical reflections on child psychiatry
A Contribution to the Psychology of Bodily Feelings
The Role of Hostility in the Pathogenesis of Peptic Ulcer
The present status of the role of psychogenic factors in peptic ulcer is briefly reviewed. A case of peptic ulcer is presented. It is demonstrated that: a) anger stimulated the production of a large volume of hydrochloric acid; b) this effect was obtained after a period of complete inhibition of gastric acidity by enterogastrone; c) the stimulating effect of anger was abolished by bilateral vagus section. A theoretical formulation is presented to…
Factors in the Pathogenesis of Peptic Ulcer
Psychiatric Aspects of Vagotomy
Psychosomatic Aspects of Salivary Activity
Physiologic and Psychodynamic Mechanisms in Constipation and Diarrhea
On the Psychoanalytic Theory of Instincts
(1952). On the Psychoanalytic Theory of Instincts. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 25-48
A Contribution to the Philosophy of medicine
INTRODUCTION When a person leaves the culture in which he was born and raised and migrates to another, he usually experiences his new social setting as something strange—and in some ways threatening—and he is stimulated to master it by conscious efforts at understanding. To some extent every immigrant to the United States reacts in this manner to the American scene. Similarly, the American tourist in Europe or South America "scrutinizes" the soci…
On The Experiences of the Analyst in the Psychoanalytic Situation
The Psychology of Bodily Feelings in Schizophrenia (Special Article)
This essay aims at elucidating the psychology of bodily feelings in schizophrenia. Its subject matter is, therefore, hypochondriasis and so-called somatic delusions. Previous workers concerned with these phenomena have either emphasized the role of the alleged perception of minimal somatic stimuli which ordinarily remain unconscious, or have stressed the psychological meaning of the symptoms in terms of the symbolic meaning of their content (i.e.…
A Contribution to the Psychology of Bodily Feelings
Psychoanalysis as Method and as Theory
(1958). Psychoanalysis as Method and as Theory. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 89-97
Men and Machines
The Role of the Counterphobic Mechanism in Addiction
The Communication of Distress Between Child and Parent
The myth of mental illness
The bet looked reasonable before kickoff. The favourite had won four of its previous five matches, the opponent was missing two starting defenders, and the available odds seemed consistent with the pre-match assessment. Then the favourite lost 0–1 after conceding from a corner in the 87th minute. The immediate reaction is familiar: the strategy must be flawed. That conclusion can be just as misleading as the original bet. The common mistake: judg…
The uses of naming and the origin of the myth of mental illness
A Strategy of Freedom
Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry
Psychiatric Justice
Feedback from our readers
The psychiatrist as double agent
The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
Book Reviews Get access The Ethics of Psychoanalysis : The theory and method of autonomous psychotherapy. By Thomas S. Szasz. (London and New York : Basic Books. 1965. Pp. xiii + 226. Price $5.50) Frank Cioffi Frank Cioffi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 75, April 1969, Page 189, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217710 Published: 01 April 1969
The manufacture of madness
Intends to show that the belief in mental illness and the social actions to which it leads have the same moral implications and political consequences as had the belief in witchcraft and the social actions to which it led.
The Sane Slave
Law, property, and psychiatry
Psychiatric interventions in the administration of civil law regulating the individual's right to manage his person and property serve two often contradictory aims: to protect the ward and maximize his material benefits, as defined by individuals other than the ward himself, and to protect the potential ward's civil rights and to minimize abridgments of his freedom and powers to make independent decisions as defined by himself. It is the view of …
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