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Szasz has indicated that his own views came from libertarian politics held since his teens, rather than through experience in psychiatry ; that in his " rare " contacts with involuntary mental patients in the past he either sought to discharge them ( if they were not charged with a crime ) or " assisted the prosecution in securing conviction " ( if they were charged with a crime and appeared to be prima facie guilty ); that he is not opposed to consensual psychiatry and " does not interfere with the practice of the conventional psychiatrist ", and that he provided " listening-and-talking (" psychotherapy ")" for voluntary fee-paying clients from 1948 until 1996, a practice he characterizes as non-medical and not associated with his being a psychoanalytically trained psychiatrist.
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Szasz has since ( 2008 ) re-emphasized his disdain for the term anti-psychiatry, arguing that its legacy has simply been a " catchall term used to delegitimize and dismiss critics of psychiatric fraud and force by labeling them ' antipsychiatrists '".
Daniel Burston, however, has argued that overall the published works of Szasz and Laing demonstrate far more points of convergence and intellectual kinship than Szasz admits, despite the divergence on a number of issues related to Szasz being a libertarian and Laing an existentialist ; that Szasz employs a good deal of exaggeration and distortion in his criticism of Laing's personal character, and unfairly uses Laing's personal failings and family woes to discredit his work and ideas ; and that Szasz's " clear-cut, crystalline ethical principles are designed to spare us the agonizing and often inconclusive reflections that many clinicians face frequently in the course of their work ".
Psychiatry, supported by the State through various Mental Health Acts, has become a modern secular state religion according to Szasz.
According to Szasz, “ the therapeutic state swallows up everything human on the seemingly rational ground that nothing falls outside the province of health and medicine, just as the theological state had swallowed up everything human on the perfectly rational ground that nothing falls outside the province of God and religion .” Faced with the problem of “ madness ,” Western individualism proved to be ill prepared to defend the rights of the individual: modern man has no more right to be a madman than medieval man had a right to be a heretic because if once people agree that they have identified the one true God, or Good, it brings about that they have to guard members and nonmembers of the group from the temptation to worship false gods or goods.
Believing that psychiatric hospitals are like prisons not hospitals and that psychiatrists who subject others to coercion function as judges and jailers not physicians, Szasz has made efforts to abolish involuntary psychiatric hospitalization for over two decades, and in 1970 took a part in founding the American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization ( AAAIMH ).
The writers whose work has appeared in The Freeman in recent decades include such libertarians as Charles W. Baird, Donald J. Boudreaux, Clarence Carson, Stephen Davies, Richard Epstein, Burton Folsom, Jr., David R. Henderson, Robert Higgs, David Kelley, Tibor Machan, Wendy McElroy, Lawrence W. Reed, George Reisman, Hans Sennholz, Bernard Siegan, John Stossel, George Leef, Thomas Szasz and Walter E. Williams.
According to Szasz, “ the therapeutic state swallows up everything human on the seemingly rational ground that nothing falls outside the province of health and medicine, just as the theological state had swallowed up everything human on the perfectly rational ground that nothing falls outside the province of God and religion .” Faced with the problem of “ madness ,” Western individualism proved to be ill prepared to defend the rights of the individual: modern man has no more right to be a madman than medieval man had a right to be a heretic because if once people agree that they have identified the one true God, or Good, it brings about that they have to guard members and nonmembers of the group from the temptation to worship false gods or goods.
Szasz and views
Thomas Szasz focused on the social implications of labeling people as psychotic, a label he argues unjustly medicalises different views of reality so such unorthodox people can be controlled by society.
" Richard Webster notes that some of Szasz's arguments are similar to his, but that their views of hysteria and the work of Jean-Martin Charcot are quite different, since Szasz assumes that hysteria was an emotional problem and that Charcot's patients were not genuinely mentally ill.
During his career he publicly debated a vast amount of people who represented opposing views to his ; this included for example debates with psychologist Nathaniel Branden on Objectivism and psychiatrist Thomas Szasz on the topic of mental illness.
Other commentators, such as Edward Timms, have argued that Kraus respected Freud, though with reservations about the application of some of his theories, and that his views were far less black-and-white than Szasz suggests.
Szasz and from
In this latter field, R. D. Laing, Thomas Szasz and Michel Foucault were instrumental in moving medicine away from emphasis on " cures " and towards concepts of individuals in balance with their society, both of which are changing, and against which no benchmarks or finished " cures " were very likely to be measurable.
In 1938, Szasz moved to the United States, where he attended the University of Cincinnati for his Bachelor of Arts in medicine, and received his medical degree from the same university in 1944.
Szasz completed his residency requirement at the Cincinnati General Hospital, then worked at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis from 1951 – 1956, and then for the next five years was a member of its staff – taking twenty-four months out for active duty with the U. S. Navy.
Szasz argued that psychiatrics were created in the 17th century to study and control those who erred from the medical norms of social behavior ; a new specialization, drogophobia, was created in the 20th century to study and control those who erred from the medical norms of drug consumption ; and then, in the 1960s, another specialization, bariatrics, was created to deal with those who erred from the medical norms concerning the weight which the body should have.
* Death control: In an analogy to birth control, Szasz argued that individuals should be able to choose when to die without interference from medicine or the state, just as they are able to choose when to conceive without outside interference.
Menninger's letter suggests he had been much closer to Szasz on issues in psychiatry than one might have suspected from reading Szasz's criticisms of Menninger.
They regarded compassion ( a virtue ) as an affect, neither admirable nor contemptible .” Thomas Szasz from his book " Cruel Compassion "
* Alan Moore's Supreme includes a version of Mxyzptlk called Szasz, the Sprite Supreme from the 19th dimension.
According to Szasz, the problem, from which psychiatric abuse stems, is psychiatric power that is just as prevalent in democratic societies as it was in the USSR.
As revealed in the foreword to the trade paperback form of The Last Arkham, Zsasz's name is derived from that of psychiatrist Thomas Szasz ; Grant saw the name while visiting a library.
Senior Fellow Bruce Benson received the 2006 Adam Smith Award, Research Analyst Gabriel Gasave received the Freedom Award for Brave Defense of Liberty from the Fundacion Atlas, and Senior Fellow Robert Higgs received the 1998 Templeton Honor Rolls Award on Education in a Free Society, 2006 Friedrich von Wieser Memorial Prize for Excellence in Economic Education, 2006 Thomas S. Szasz Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Cause of Civil Liberties, 2006 Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the Literature of Liberty, and 2007 Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Cause of Liberty.
Szasz and libertarian
* Thomas S. Szasz, libertarian critic of psychiatry, author of The Myth of Mental Illness
Kraus was the subject of two books written by noted libertarian author Dr. Thomas Szasz.
Szasz and since
While the insanity defense is the subject of controversy as a viable excuse for wrongdoing, Szasz and other critics contend that being committed in a psychiatric hospital can be worse than criminal imprisonment, since it involves the risk of compulsory medication with neuroleptics or the use of electroshock treatment.
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" Addictiveness " is a social category, argued Szasz, and the use of drugs should be apprehended as a social ritual rather than exclusively as the act of ingesting a chemical substance.
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Concepts of criminal justice and its intersection with medicine were better developed in this work than in Szasz and others, who confined their critique to current psychiatric practice.
On October 6, 1988, less than two years before his death, Karl Menninger wrote a letter to Thomas Szasz, author of The Myth of Mental Illness.
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The collaboration between psychiatry and government leads to what Szasz calls the " therapeutic state ", a system in which disapproved actions, thoughts, and emotions are repressed (" cured ") through pseudomedical interventions.
Szasz dubbed pharmacology " pharmacomythology " because of its inclusion of social practices in its studies, in particular through the inclusion of the category of " addictiveness " in its programs.
The collaboration between psychiatry and government leads to what Szasz calls the “ therapeutic state ”, a system in which disapproved actions, thoughts, and emotions are repressed (" cured ") through pseudomedical interventions.
" The collaboration between psychiatry and government leads to what Szasz calls the " therapeutic state ", a system in which disapproved actions, thoughts, and emotions are repressed (" cured ") through pseudomedical interventions.
Szasz and psychiatry
In the same vein as the separation of church and state, Szasz believes that a solid wall must exist between psychiatry and the State.
Szasz calls schizophrenia " the sacred symbol of psychiatry " because those so labeled have long provided and continue to provide justification for psychiatric theories, treatments, abuses, and reforms.
According to Szasz, to understand the metaphorical nature of the term " disease " in psychiatry, one must first understand its literal meaning in the rest of medicine.
In the same vein as the separation of church and state, Szasz believes that a solid wall must exist between psychiatry and the State.
Madness and Civilization ( 1961 ) postulated that conceptions of madness and what was considered " reason " or " knowledge " was itself subject to major culture bias-in this respect mirroring similar criticisms by Thomas Szasz, at the time the foremost critic of psychiatry, and himself now an eminent psychiatrist.
It became very well known in the mental health professions and was well received by those sceptical of modern psychiatry, but made Szasz an enemy of many doctors.
* Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus ' Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry ( 1990 ) by Thomas Szasz contains Szasz's translations of several of Kraus ' articles and aphorisms on psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry ( ISBN 978-0-7658-0145-6 ) is a 2002 work on, and a critique of, psychiatry by Thomas Stephen Szasz.
However, the Attorney General's decision was promptly challenged by famous psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, who insisted that psychiatry must never become a tool of political rivalry.
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