Thomas Szasz - Wikipedia
Thomas Stephen Szasz (/ sɑːs / SAHSS; Hungarian: Szász Tamás István [saːs]; 15 April 1920 – 8 September 2012) was a Hungarian-American academic and psychiatrist. He served for most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State University of …
Dr. Thomas Szasz, Psychiatrist Who Led Movement Against His …
2012年9月12日 · Thomas Szasz, a psychiatrist whose 1961 book “The Myth of Mental Illness” questioned the legitimacy of his field and provided the intellectual grounding for generations of critics, patient...
The Myth of Mental Illness - Wikipedia
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct is a 1961 book by the psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, in which the author criticizes psychiatry and argues against the concept of mental illness.
Thomas Szasz: rebel with a questionable cause - The Lancet
2012年10月20日 · Thomas Szasz challenged mental health practice perhaps more than any other American psychiatrist in the decades after World War 2. He did so by turning against his own specialty.
Mental Illness vs Brain Disorders: From Szasz to DSM-5
2014年2月28日 · Thomas Szasz-a psychiatrist-was a lifelong ferocious critic of the institution of psychiatry. A significant body of discourse on the notion of mental disorder by psychiatrists and non-psychiatrists alike has been centered on understanding and responding to his critique.
In this essay, I briefly review the recent history of this culturally validated medicalisation of (mis)behaviours and its social consequences.
Thomas Szasz on The Myth of Mental Illness - Psychotherapy.net
Psychiatrist and social critic Thomas Szasz unsettled the psychiatric establishment in the 1960’s, challenging its foundational notions around normalcy, mental illness and treatment.
A Celebration of the Life and Work of Thomas Szasz
2014年8月8日 · With 35 books, including “Myth of Mental Illness”, over 400 written pieces and hundreds of presentations, the always lucid, witty and provocative Dr Szasz has been seen as a “philosopher of liberty”, humanist, libertarian, and “the biggest of the antipsychiatry intellectuals”.
'Myth of Mental Illness' author, psychiatrist Thomas Szasz dies
2012年9月11日 · Thomas Szasz MD, one of the most controversial thinkers in behavioral science and a professor of psychiatry emeritus at Upstate, died at his home in Manlius on Saturday at the age of 92.
1992 Post-Standard story explored Dr. Thomas Szasz's …
2012年9月12日 · Dr. Thomas Szasz, who died Saturday at his home in Manlius, was well-known in the field of psychiatry for his controversial position that mental illness was a myth. The Post-Standard published a...