Psychiatric Slavery / Edition 1

by Thomas Szasz

Overview

In this short work, Dr. Szasz takes aim at conventional psychiatry, and at the attendent system of courts, hospitals, and psychiatrists who confine patients against their will. The focal point is a Supreme Court case involving a man forcibly committed to a Florida asylum for 14 years. In refuting the widely held notion that the Donaldson case represents an advancement in the rights of mental patients, Dr. Szasz has put the American legal establishments on trial.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815605119
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	04/01/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.42(d)

About the Author

Thomas Szasz is the author of over six hundred articles and twenty-four books. He was a practicing psychiatrist and is a professor of psychiatry emeritus at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York.