Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences
Book Details
- Publisher : Syracuse U.P.
- Published : 1997
- Category :
Clinical Psychology - Catalogue No : 4957
- ISBN 13 : 9780815604600
- ISBN 10 : 0815604602
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The idea of 'insanity' pervades every aspect of our daily lives. Here, Szasz contends that the term actually functions as a euphemism for problems in living, as an excuse for crime and misbehaviour, as a stigma for invalidating adversaries and, generally, as a metaphor and legal fiction. 436 pages.
About the Author(s)
Thomas Szasz is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. His books include Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry, The Manufacture of Madness, Ideology and Insanity, Ceremonial Chemistry, The Myth of Psychotherapy, Psychiatry, and The Medicalization of Everyday Life.
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