Psychiatric Slavery
Author: Szasz, Thomas Stephen; Introduction: Szasz, Thomas S.
Number of pages: 186
Published: February 1998
Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815605110
Format: Pdf in rar
Author: Szasz, Thomas Stephen; Introduction: Szasz, Thomas S.
Number of pages: 186
Published: February 1998
Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815605110
Format: Pdf in rar
In this short work, Dr. Szasz takes aim at conventional psychiatry, and at the attendent system of courts, hospitals, and psychiatrists who confine patients against their will. The focal point is a Supreme Court case involving a man forcibly committed to a Florida asylum for 14 years.
The leading opponent of involuntary mental hospitalization names and documents his charges in a full attack on what he considers the unconstitutional, immoral, and illegal confinement of people to mental institutions without treatment