Thomas Szasz, Author . Syracuse Univ. $19.95 (202p) ISBN 978-0-8156-0867-7
Psychiatrist Szasz, professor emeritus at SUNY Upstate Medical University, continues his iconoclastic career in this short book of essays (previously published in journals) spanning much of his professional life. He details how the medical and legal
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Thomas Szasz, Author Praeger Publishers $55 (232p) ISBN 978-0-275-94216-8
The ``war on drugs,'' charges Szasz, is a hypocritical moral crusade, a pretext for strengthening the state and scapegoating deviants. It is also racist, he asserts, pointing out that blacks are arrested on drug charges at a rate far out of...
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Thomas Szasz, Author Praeger Publishers $28.95 (198p) ISBN 978-0-275-95603-5
With The Myth of Mental Illness (1961), Szasz began his crusade against forced commitment to mental institutions, enforced psychotropic medication and the official definition, indeed the very concept, of schizophrenia. He has published more than 20...
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