Schizophrenia - The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Szasz is the author of over four hundred articles and nineteen books; among the most recent are The Therapeutic State: Psychiatry in the Mirror of Current Events and Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences. He was both a practicing psychiatrist and a professor of psychiatry at the Health Science Center, State University of New York, in Syracuse. Klappentext 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, unsolicited, and damaging interventions.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Szasz
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2015
• EAN: 9780815602248
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-0224-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Anti-psychiatry