Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of PsychiatryTransaction Publishers, 2011. 12. 31. - 293페이지 Understanding the history of psychiatry requires an accurate view of its function and purpose. In this provocative new study, Szasz challenges conventional beliefs about psychiatry. He asserts that, in fact, psychiatrists are not concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of bona fide illnesses. Psychiatric tradition, social expectation, and the law make it clear that coercion is the profession's determining characteristic. Psychiatrists may "diagnose" or "treat" people without their consent or even against their clearly expressed wishes, and these involuntary psychiatric interventions are as different as are sexual relations between consenting adults and the sexual violence we call "rape." But the point is not merely the difference between coerced and consensual psychiatry, but to contrast them. The term "psychiatry" ought to be applied to one or the other, but not both. As long as psychiatrists and society refuse to recognize this, there can be no real psychiatric historiography. The coercive character of psychiatry was more apparent in the past than it is now. Then, insanity was synonymous with unfitness for liberty. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, a new type of psychiatric relationship developed, when people experiencing so-called "nervous symptoms," sought help. This led to a distinction between two kinds of mental diseases: neuroses and psychoses. Persons who complained about their own behavior were classified as neurotic, whereas persons about whose behavior others complained were classified as psychotic. The legal, medical, psychiatric, and social denial of this simple distinction and its far-reaching implications undergirds the house of cards that is modern psychiatry. Coercion as Cure is the most important book by Szasz since his landmark The Myth of Mental Illness. |
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... century, a new type of psy— chiatric relationship entered the medical scene: persons experiencing so-called “nervous symptoms” began to seek medical help, typically from the family physician or a specialist in “nervous disorders.” This ...
... century, a new type of psy— chiatric relationship entered the medical scene: persons experiencing so-called “nervous symptoms” began to seek medical help, typically from the family physician or a specialist in “nervous disorders.” This ...
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... centuries, that psychiatric coercion is medical care. Largely because psychiatric slavery has been so successfully misrep— resented as therapeutic liberation, the result of the struggle against it, so far, has been inconsequential, if ...
... centuries, that psychiatric coercion is medical care. Largely because psychiatric slavery has been so successfully misrep— resented as therapeutic liberation, the result of the struggle against it, so far, has been inconsequential, if ...
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... century, the typical person classified as mentally ill is not like a helpless infant. If he were, he would not protest his confinement and would not present the social problems he often presents. It behooves persons unable to tolerate ...
... century, the typical person classified as mentally ill is not like a helpless infant. If he were, he would not protest his confinement and would not present the social problems he often presents. It behooves persons unable to tolerate ...
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... century, especially in the German-speaking lands of Europe, was an era of breathtaking advances in medicine... They shared a strong scientific interest in language and in dreams (albeit for different reasons) and also broad cultural ...
... century, especially in the German-speaking lands of Europe, was an era of breathtaking advances in medicine... They shared a strong scientific interest in language and in dreams (albeit for different reasons) and also broad cultural ...
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... century. Szasz was so attractive to many critics of psychiatry because he rejected the right of psychiatrists forcibly to institutionalize and treat people who he said were as a rule not really mentally ill.”19 Dain's brief summary is ...
... century. Szasz was so attractive to many critics of psychiatry because he rejected the right of psychiatrists forcibly to institutionalize and treat people who he said were as a rule not really mentally ill.”19 Dain's brief summary is ...
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75 페이지 - Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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5 페이지 - The entire history of social improvement has been a series of transitions, by which one custom or institution after another, from being a supposed primary necessity of social existence, has passed into the rank of an universally stigmatized injustice and tyranny.
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