All in the Mind - Thomas Szasz speaks (Part 2 of 2)

Here is part two of the controversial and interesting All in the Mind interview with Thomas Szasz.

Thomas Szasz speaks (Part 2 of 2)

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In 1961 maverick psychiatrist and libertarian Professor Thomas Szasz published his controversial and influential epic, The Myth of Mental Illness. Half a century later he maintains we live in a therapeutic state—a 'pharmacracy'—and that psychiatry is a 'pseudoscientific racket'. On the eve of his 89th birthday he joins Natasha Mitchell in conversation. Next week, psychiatrists respond.

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Guests

Professor Thomas Szasz
Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus
State University of New York Health Science Center
Syracuse, New York
http://www.szasz.com/

Further Information

Part 1 of 2 - Thomas Szasz speaks
The first part of this broadcast with Professor Thomas Szasz

Thomas Szasz - Psychiatrists respond
Part 3 of this series about Thomas Szasz' legacy and work

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Publications

Title: Coercion As Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
Publisher: Transaction Publishers, 2007

Title: Psychiatry: The Science of Lies
Author: Thomas Szasz
Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 2008

Title: Szasz Under Fire: The Psychiatric Abolitionist Faces His Critics
Author: Edited by Jeffrey A Schaler
Publisher: 2004

Contributors include Thomas Szasz, R.R Kendell, K.W.M Fulford, Ray Scott Percival, Ralph Slovenko, Stanton Peele, Rita J. Simon, E. James Lieberman, Margaret A. Hagen, Margaret P. Battin and Ryan Spellecy, Richard Bentall, Ronald Pies, H. Tristam Engelhardt, Jr.

Title: The Medicalization of Everyday Life - Selected Essays
Author: Thomas Szasz
Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 2007
ISBN-13 978-0-8156-0867-7

Title: The Myth of Mental Illness (original journal paper)
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
Publisher: American Psychologist, 15, 113-118. 1960
URL: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Szasz/myth.htm
This became the basis of Thomas Szasz's book of the same title, published the year later.

Title: The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
Author: Thomas Szasz
Publisher: 1984 Harper Perennial (Revised edition), first published 1961.

Title: The Myth of Psychotherapy
Author: Thomas Szasz
Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 1988.
ISBN-10: 0815602235

Presenter

Natasha Mitchell

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