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Liberation by Oppression
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Thomas Szasz is professor of psychiatry emeritus at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York and Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, Washington, DC. He is the author of over two dozen books in fifteen languages, including The Myth of Mental Illness and most recently, Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America.

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-The book is readable and challenging; readers will never see psychiatry in the same way again.- --Choice -Szasz now appears to have been transformed into an ally rather than an enemy of the National Health Service general adult psychiatrist. Szasz's project has always been to argue passionately for a boundry of demarcation around the responsibility and power of psychiatry....But what saves this book from being just another mugging of psychiatry is that Szasz does raise a fundamental question at the core of our discipline. If we restricted our attention only to those clients who wanted to see a psychiatrist, and disengaged from all those who really didn't, how different might our professional practice and experience be?- --The British Journal of Psychiatry -In Liberation by Oppression . . . his latest thrust at the therapeutic state and psychiatric mendacity, Szasz leaves no doubt as to the legitimacy and credibility of his arguments. Masquerading as therapy and working under the name of medicine, present-day psychiatry subjects its patients (victims) to the most heinous forms of mental and physical oppression. Comparing psychiatry to slavery may seem extreme at first glance, but as Szasz expands his argument, we find his reasoning profound and convincing. Because the state proclaims that psychiatry is a branch of medicine and that all mental diseases are brain diseases, psychiatry takes ever-greater control of people and their behaviors. With the power forcibly to drug, restrain, and imprison, it occupies the throne of the therapeutic state. Despite all of its self-proclaimed efforts to -free- persons from their -illnesses,- it actually oppresses and confines them. Therapeutic enslavement by psychiatry is worse than all the forms of political slavery the world has endured thus far. . . . Liberation by Oppression is a valiant and worthy effort by one of the great modern thinkers to keep the flame of liberty burning. It is a bold, powerful, and intellectually spirited debunking of the psychiatric pseudoscience that debases the human spirit and damages countless lives. Szasz's message urgently needs to reach both those who value science and those who share the values of the Declaration of Independence. It is a masterful defense of both reason and individual rights.- --Robert A. Baker, Independent Review -Thomas Szasz has created an extraordinary body of work, that continues to raise consequential challenges to the the prevailing myths of the culture of psychology.- --Tobias Wolff, PEN/Faulkner Award-winner, Stanford University

"The book is readable and challenging; readers will never see psychiatry in the same way again." --Choice "Szasz now appears to have been transformed into an ally rather than an enemy of the National Health Service general adult psychiatrist. Szasz's project has always been to argue passionately for a boundry of demarcation around the responsibility and power of psychiatry....But what saves this book from being just another mugging of psychiatry is that Szasz does raise a fundamental question at the core of our discipline. If we restricted our attention only to those clients who wanted to see a psychiatrist, and disengaged from all those who really didn't, how different might our professional practice and experience be?" --The British Journal of Psychiatry "In Liberation by Oppression . . . his latest thrust at the therapeutic state and psychiatric mendacity, Szasz leaves no doubt as to the legitimacy and credibility of his arguments. Masquerading as therapy and working under the name of medicine, present-day psychiatry subjects its patients (victims) to the most heinous forms of mental and physical oppression. Comparing psychiatry to slavery may seem extreme at first glance, but as Szasz expands his argument, we find his reasoning profound and convincing. Because the state proclaims that psychiatry is a branch of medicine and that all mental diseases are brain diseases, psychiatry takes ever-greater control of people and their behaviors. With the power forcibly to drug, restrain, and imprison, it occupies the throne of the therapeutic state. Despite all of its self-proclaimed efforts to "free" persons from their "illnesses," it actually oppresses and confines them. Therapeutic enslavement by psychiatry is worse than all the forms of political slavery the world has endured thus far. . . . Liberation by Oppression is a valiant and worthy effort by one of the great modern thinkers to keep the flame of liberty burning. It is a bold, powerful, and intellectually spirited debunking of the psychiatric pseudoscience that debases the human spirit and damages countless lives. Szasz's message urgently needs to reach both those who value science and those who share the values of the Declaration of Independence. It is a masterful defense of both reason and individual rights." --Robert A. Baker, Independent Review "Thomas Szasz has created an extraordinary body of work, that continues to raise consequential challenges to the the prevailing myths of the culture of psychology." --Tobias Wolff, PEN/Faulkner Award-winner, Stanford University

"Thomas Szasz has created an extraordinary body of work, that continues to raise consequential challenges to the the prevailing myths of the culture of psychology." "-- Tobias Wolff, PEN/Faulkner Award-winner, Stanford University"

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