

Psychiatry
The Science of Lies
Author: Thomas Szasz
Narrator: Tom Weiner
Unabridged: 4 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 09/14/2010
Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology
Author: Thomas Szasz
Narrator: Tom Weiner
Unabridged: 4 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 09/14/2010
Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology
Thomas Szasz is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York’s 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; Pharmacracy, and many more.
"[F]actual error validated as Doctrinal Truth is essential for the survival of organizations whose aim is to satisfy man's unquenchable thirst to be relieved of the burden of moral responsibility." A fitting summation to Szasz criticism of psychiatry as a whole, in this book. Apparently, he built an......more
The idea that psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia, alcoholism, ADHD and depression are illnesses ‘just like any other disease’ is obvious nonsense. If these conditions are diseases, which depends how we define ‘disease’, they are clearly diseases very unlike the infections of pathogens with whi......more
Ortaçağda kiliseyi eleştirmek nasıl karşılanıyorsa günümüzde eğitim, psikiyatri gibi modern kurumları da eleştirmek öyle karşılanıyor. Bu kurumları eleştirmek için ya akılsız olmalısınız ya da bilgisiz. Kiliseyi geri plana öteleyen modernite kendi putlarını mı yerine koyuyor yoksa? Ya da gerçekten s......more