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Dodwell, David. "Thomas Szasz." International Psychiatry 11, no. 3 (August 2014): 75–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/s1749367600004574.

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Stafford, N. "Thomas Szasz." BMJ 345, oct17 1 (October 17, 2012): e7011-e7011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e7011.

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Kerr, Alan. "Thomas Szasz." Psychiatric Bulletin 21, no. 1 (January 1997): 39–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.21.1.39.

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Haldipur, C. V. "Thomas Szasz." Psychiatrist 37, no. 2 (February 2013): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.112.042358.

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Fannon, Dominic. "Thomas Szasz." Psychiatric Bulletin 29, no. 3 (March 2005): 120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.29.3.120.

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Watts, Geoff. "Thomas Stephen Szasz." Lancet 380, no. 9851 (October 2012): 1380. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(12)61790-5.

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Slovenko, Ralph. "On Thomas Szasz." Journal of Psychiatry & Law 30, no. 1 (March 2002): 119–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009318530203000112.

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Domaradzki, Jan. "Thomas Szasz: The Uncompromising Rebel and Critic of Psychiatry." Psychiatria Polska 55, no. 4 (August 31, 2021): 851–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.12740/pp/125902.

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O'Shea, Brian. "Thomas Stephen Szasz (1920-2012)." Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine 29, no. 3 (2012): 201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0790966700017304.

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Breeding, John. "Thomas Szasz: Philosopher of Liberty." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 51, no. 1 (July 6, 2010): 112–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022167810373395.

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Maciel, Rubens Romano. "Contestação e construção do saber psiquiatrico : uma interpretação da obra de Thomas S. Szasz." [s.n.], 1999. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/309228.

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Resumo: O presente trabalho tem por eixo a discussão elaborada em "(9 Mito da Doença Mentar, de Thomas Szasz. Nesta obra, a psiquiatria é criticada com os argumentos de que não tem como sustentar racionalmente seu conteúdo teórico e que existe em razão de criar efeitos ilusórios, em analogia ao saber que, em outras épocas, legitimou a Inquisição. A perspectiva crítica em que se firma fornece meios que permitem deslocá-la para a análise dos recursos internos de discursos que, a despeito de não se sustentarem na racionalidade, logram êxito em convencer durante períodos relativamente bem delimitados. A concepção em que a psiquiatria é enquadrada também serve para a reflexão das idéias do próprio Szasz que, consideradas em conjunto com as circunstâncias que deram a elas condições de sucesso, são aqui tomadas como objeto de investigação. O tema é explorado através dos diferentes elementos discursivos e de práticas que a ele se agregam, quais sejam os referentes a formas e conseqüências dos processos geradores de convencimento. Assim, também são revistos aspectos dos anos sessenta e setenta importantes para a definição das tendências presentes no senso comum afeito aos grupos que, propensos a tomarem para si a bandeira da contestação às instituições, tiveram relevância política. O intuito é resgatar a discussão sobre a forma de construção e a validade racional de determinadas formulações científicas empregadas com finalidade ideológica, bem como a importância desta discussão para uma área de saber como a psiquiatria
Abstract: The present work uses the discussion elaborated in "The Myth of the Mental Illness", written by Thomas Szasz, as its axis. In the Szasz' work, the psychiatry is criticized with the arguments that it does not sustain its theoretical content rationally and that exists in order to creating illusory effects. It's similar to the knowledge that legitimated the Inquisition in another time. The critical perspective developed by him supplies means that allow us to use them for the analysis of the internal resources of discourses. The idea is these discourses in spite of if they don't sustain in the rationality, they achieve success in convincing persons relatively well during a defined period of time. This conception is extended to psychiatry in order to do a reflection about Szasz' ideas. The theme is explored through the different discursive elements and practices that are joined them. Basically, the analysis is on the forms and the consequences of the processes that generating conviction. Thus, important aspects for the definition of tendencies in the common sense of groups that reply to the institutions and that had political relevance in the sixties and seventies years are reviewed too. The goal is to rescue the discussion on the forms of construction and the rational validity of several scientific formulations employed with ideological purposes
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Sully, Martha (Martha Jane) Carleton University Dissertation Philosophy. "Strangers in a strange place: toward a phenomenology of mental illness." Ottawa, 1992.

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Hrádková, Jana. "Anthology of Unspoken: Surreal Complexity of Mind." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta výtvarných umění, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-445692.

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The diploma thesis Anthology of Unspoken is a form of personal therapy, a coping mechanism in the shape of an extensive personal research presented by visually eclectic web, which maps the perception of depression and melancholy in terms of historical, artistic, and partly academic discourse. AoU takes the form of a website on the border of an archive and a research blog, which visually reminds a notebook with the use of texts in the form of notes, reader view essays, and accompanying visual material (period paintings, pop-cultural references, emoticons etc.). This diploma thesis has two main goals. Firstly, it represents a way of finding means to articulate and at least fractionally understand my own problems. Secondly, it is a way of finding answers to the following questions: Is depression really a modern matter of the 21st century? Why is it so difficult to talk about it? Where do the shame and feeling of guilt, with which it is inextricably associated with, come from? Is melancholy synonymous with depression, or do these terms differ from each other? And is depression really a disease or is it only a sign of my own failure?
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Books on the topic "Thomas Szasz"

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Codato, Francesco. Thomas Szasz: La critica psichiatrica come forma bioetica. Milano: Albo Versorio, 2013.

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Vice, Janet. From patients to persons: The psychiatric critiques of Thomas Szasz, Peter Sedgwick, and R.D. Laing. New York: P. Lang, 1992.

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Pols, Jan. The politics of mental illness: Myth and power in the work of Thomas S. Szasz. [Amstelveen: PPPK Publishing House], 2005.

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Haldipur, C. V., James L. Knoll IV, and Eric v.d. Luft, eds. Thomas Szasz. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198813491.001.0001.

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This anthology takes a multidisciplinary approach to examining the legacy of the controversial psychiatrist and libertarian philosopher Thomas Szasz (1920-2012), whose mordant criticism of psychiatry challenged the very concept of mental illness and the practice of coercive psychiatric treatment and some tenets of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. The international spectrum of contributors represents a wide variety of viewpoints in psychiatry, philosophy, and the history of ideas. They discuss the viability of interpretations of mental illness, especially with reference to specific conditions such as schizophrenia; the legal and ethical implications of Szasz’s thought, particularly for the insanity defense; several aspects of the suicide debate; questions of accountability, responsibility, and psychopathy; thinkers who influenced him; and his influences on others.
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Luft, Eric v. d., C. V. Haldipur, and James L. Knoll IV. Thomas Szasz: An Appraisal of His Legacy. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Thomas S. Szasz: The Man and His Ideas. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Vellucci, Mark. Psychiatric Rights Rites: A Treatise on Involuntary Mental Hospitalization and Thomas Szasz. iUniverse, 2004.

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From Patients to Persons: The Psychiatric Critiques of Thomas Szasz, Peter Sedgwick, and R.D. Laing (American University Studies Series V, Philosophy). Peter Lang Pub Inc, 1993.

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Book chapters on the topic "Thomas Szasz"

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Pols, Jan. "Leading up to The Myth of Mental Illness." In Thomas Szasz, edited by C. V. Haldipur, James L. Knoll, and Eric v. d. Luft, 12–19. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198813491.003.0003.

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The Myth of Mental Illness was the book that launched Szasz’s reputation as a critical psychiatrist. Although he was aware of its controversial nature, the storm it generated in the United States and beyond took him by surprise. Examining the early years of Szasz’s career and contermplating certain contextual factors, in particular the sociopolitical background that shines through his work in many ways, as well as the social circumstances around psychiatry at the time, show to what extent his publications before 1961 predicted his later rebellion against the psychiatric establishment. In these early discussions of such topics as pain, psychosomatic illness, and scientific reductionism, one sees germs of his bent toward libertarian sociological, philosophical, and ideological theories of psychoanalyis, the physician-patient relationship, sociopolitical psychology, and culture in general.
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Luft, Eric v. d. "Philosophical influences on Thomas Szasz." In Thomas Szasz, edited by C. V. Haldipur, James L. Knoll, and Eric v. d. Luft, 20–35. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198813491.003.0004.

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We would naturally expect Szasz, a libertarian conservative, to have been influenced by, for example, Rousseau, Burke, Hayek, von Mises, Thoreau, Socrates, Camus, Sartre, Mill, Mencken, Seneca, Nietzsche, Stirner, and individualism in general. But this is not entirely the case. As somewhat of a philosophical rogue, his influences were subterranean, selective, and so eclectic that we could almost accuse him of cherry-picking. He could not use many philosophers to his advantage since they mostly accepted the reality of mental illness. Yet in Szasz’s works we detect Popper’s rejection of historicism and social determinism, Russell’s linguistic analysis, Reichenbach’s logical empiricism, Bridgman’s operationalism, Langer’s and Cassirer’s systematic understanding of non-linguistic expressions such as symbols, Kierkegaard’s indirect communication, and Hobbes’s idea that government may not legitimately take away any individual’s rights unless the individual has first freely empowered the government to do so.
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Sadler, John Z. "Conceptual models of normative content in mental disorders." In Thomas Szasz, edited by C. V. Haldipur, James L. Knoll, and Eric v. d. Luft, 36–52. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198813491.003.0005.

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The idea that mental disorders are value-laden means that they harbor action-guiding meanings and are subject to praise or blame. This domain of values includes a specific kind of value—vice—which describes wrongful, immoral, or criminal thought or conduct (e.g., antisocial personality disorder, pedophilia, conduct disorder, intermittent explosive disorder). Vice-laden mental disorders are problematic because they imply that (1) psychiatrists police antisocial conduct; (2) vice-laden disorders contribute to stigmatizing mental illness; and (3) they generate incoherent social policy and programs that both intrude upon and neglect the “served” population and community welfare. With this background, this chapter addresses the ethical, practical, and political implications of these conditions; presents four models of normative content in vice-laden mental disorders (i.e., coincidental, moralization, medicalization, and mixed); assesses their “pros” and “cons” for public policy; and concludes with considerations for psychiatric and public policy in addressing social problems associated with vice-laden mental disorders.
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Annas, George J. "Szasz, suicide, and medical ethics." In Thomas Szasz, edited by C. V. Haldipur, James L. Knoll, and Eric v. d. Luft, 55–64. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198813491.003.0006.

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Szasz objected to the medicalization of suicide, the legalization of suicide prevention, and especially the coercive role of psychiatry in this realm. He declared that, by medicalizing suicide, we banish the subject from discussion. What is meant by acceptable and unacceptable “suicide”? Who has a right to commit suicide? How does suicide implicate freedom? Does it reflect abortion jurisprudence? How do psychiatrists become suicide’s gatekeepers? Current phenomena (e.g., new physician-assisted suicide legislation) illuminate these and other issues (e.g., euthanasia, informed consent, informed refusal, the “right to die,”), all suggesting how Szasz would react to each. Suicide is legal, but is almost always considered a result of mental illness. Courts approve psychiatrists who want to commit “suicidal” patients involuntarily. Granting physicians prospective legal immunity for prescribing lethal drugs is, at best, a strange and tangential reaction to our inability to discuss suicide (and dying) rationally. Szasz got it right.
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Daly, Robert W. "Agency, mental illness, and psychiatry: A response to Thomas Szasz." In Thomas Szasz, edited by C. V. Haldipur, James L. Knoll, and Eric v. d. Luft, 65–81. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198813491.003.0007.

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Szasz’s understanding of persons as agents underwrites his ideas about mental illness and clinical psychiatry as a medical specialty. He asserts that the phenomena of mental illnesses, including suffering, signal “problems in living” or difficulties in determining the best use of one’s agential powers. The goals of the relationship are to enhance the client’s knowledge of his or her personality, to refine his intentions and sense of responsibility for his “symptoms” and other actions, and to achieve his aims and satisfy his desires, as long as he does not, by his actions, harm others. For the author of this chapter and other clinicians, the experience of phenomena exhibited by persons judged to be mentally ill are, to some extent and sense, apprehended as events that happen, rather than as actions authored by the person as agent. These untoward activities suggest a undesirable organismic condition of a person as agent, a diminution of the agent’s capacity for living a life, the signal of a organismic disorder, a problem with the human organismic equipment for living a life—not solely a problem about the best use of that equipment (as Szasz contends) but a state of ill health and a suffering person in need of treatment.
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Fulford, K. W. M. "Taking Szasz seriously—and his critics, too: Thesis, antithesis, and a values-based synthesis." In Thomas Szasz, edited by C. V. Haldipur, James L. Knoll, and Eric v. d. Luft, 82–97. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198813491.003.0008.

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Szasz attracted applause from opponents of medical psychiatry, for advancing his thesis that mental illnesses are outside the scope of biomedical sciences; and criticism in equal measure from proponents of biomedical psychiatry, for excluding patients from clinical care. There is a third way to respond to Szasz’s idea of this myth, emerging out of value theory in the Oxford analytic tradition of ordinary language philosophy, which knits together thesis and antithesis into a new, values-based synthesis. The first of two main sections in this chapter builds on the story of a real (though biographically disguised) person to illustrate the new synthesis, values-based practice (VBP); while the second section outlines how this new synthesis is being applied in psychiatry and in areas of bodily medicine, such as surgery, as a complement and partner to evidence-based practice (EBP). The conclusion is a personal anecdote about Szasz.
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Torrey, E. Fuller. "Schizophrenia: Sacred symbol or Achilles heel?" In Thomas Szasz, edited by C. V. Haldipur, James L. Knoll, and Eric v. d. Luft, 98–103. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198813491.003.0009.

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Pace Szasz, schizophrenia is a brain disease. Yet Szasz is correct that the medicalization of human follies has gone too far. Again pace Szasz, involuntary treatment is often necessary, when and if approved by laws, given certain diagnoses of abnormalities, and especially necessary in treating schizophrenics, largely because the disease impairs one’s ability to make rational decisions about one’s own welfare. Evidence from brain imaging and other neurological evidence shows that schizophrenics lose abilities to decide for themselves, just as sufferers from Alzheimer’s disease do. Moreover, Szasz himself believed that in certain instances, such as Alzheimer’s disease, involuntary treatment may be justified toward the end of achieving the best patient care.
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Knoll, James L. "Suicide prohibition: Shame, blame, or social aim?" In Thomas Szasz, edited by C. V. Haldipur, James L. Knoll, and Eric v. d. Luft, 104–23. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198813491.003.0010.

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Szasz’s final book, Suicide Prohibition: The Shame of Medicine (2011), covers the medical, legal, and philosophical aspects of suicide. The question of suicide goes straight to the core of the human condition. Szasz’s fearless wisdom brought this ostensibly taboo—yet historically popular and philosophically rich—topic into a brighter light. However, this topic is too complex to be resolved by confining it to an overly simplistic dichotomy of autonomy versus paternalism. A critical examination of “rational suicide,” sociological and psychological research on suicide, and various legal opinions concerning several forms of suicide, reveal both agreement and disagreement with Szasz’s detailed, nuanced, and heavily existential position on the matter. His emigration analogy fails because suicide, whatever its benefits, is life-negating, while emigration is typically life-affirming. Throughout this examination runs an implicit juxtaposition of the rational and the normative, from both individualistic and sociopolitical points of view.
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Church, Jennifer. "Myths, projections, and overextensions: The conceptual landscape of Thomas Szasz." In Thomas Szasz, edited by C. V. Haldipur, James L. Knoll, and Eric v. d. Luft, 124–38. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198813491.003.0011.

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This chapter distinguishes among myths, projections, and overextensions as they occur within the practice of psychiatry—adding to the conceptual complexity of Szasz’s own analyses and reflecting on how his focal concept of autonomy may itself fall prey to myth, projection, or overextension. Szasz offers detailed explications of his use of the term “myth,” yet many questions remain regarding his application of that term and its relevance to psychiatry. How is a metaphor “literalized,” and when is this problematic? What terms, in addition to the term “mental illness,” serve to support the myths of psychiatry? How do myths relate to the projections and overextensions that can also be found in the language and practice of psychiatry? With these distinctions in mind, it is appropriate to ask whether Szasz’s own reliance on the notion of autonomous agency might itself qualify as a myth, a projection, or an overextension.
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Dewan, Mantosh J., and Eugene A. Kaplan. "The clinical wisdom of Thomas Szasz." In Thomas Szasz, edited by C. V. Haldipur, James L. Knoll, and Eric v. d. Luft, 139–54. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198813491.003.0012.

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Besides Szasz’s controversial views are brilliant contributions to clinical practice, including the following examples: (1) He elaborated the physician-patient relationship with three models—“activity-passivity,” “guidance-cooperation,” and “mutual participation.” (2) In The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (1965), he promoted “autonomous psychotherapy,” which involved noncoercive dialogue between therapist and patient that would lead to education and growth for the latter. (3) He argued that transference is part of the analyst’s judgment and the patient’s experience, and that there is a relationship between transference and learning. (4) He used principles of “object relations” theory to explicate deeply the signs and symptoms of schizophrenia. Contrary to popular belief, he was not “antipsychiatry” simpliciter. As a theorist, he clarified language and tried to understand pain. As a practicing clinician, he advocated ways to help people in distress, urged embracing the freedom and autonomy of patients, and treated them as persons with abilities to help themselves.
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