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Liberation by oppression : a comparative study of slavery and psychiatry
Author
Title
Liberation by oppression : a comparative study of slavery and psychiatry / Thomas Szasz.
ISBN
0203787188 (electronic bk.)
9780203787182 (electronic bk.)
0765801450
0765805405
9780765801456
9780765805409
Published
New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, ©2002.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages.)
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Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Original
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229) and index.
List of the author's works on verso of half t.p.
Contents
Introduction: Perilous Rescues
1. Psychiatric Slavery: Legal Fiction and the Rhetoric of Therapeutic Oppression
2. The Psychiatric Slave Status: From Dred Scott to Tarasoff
3. Psychiatric Slavery as Public Health: Infection and Insanity
4. Justifying Psychiatric Slavery: Dangerousness as Disease
5. Jim Crow Psychiatry I: The Psychiatric Will and Its Enemies
6. Jim Crow Psychiatry II: The Patient Self-Determination Act
7. Expanding Psychiatric Slavery: Outpatient Commitment
8. Glorifying Psychiatric Slavery: Therapeutic Jurisprudence
Epilogue: Liberty is the Prevention of Control by Others
App. I. The Power of False Truths: The Maternity Hospital and the Mental Hospital.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Social Control, Formal
Commitment of Mentally Ill
Health Services Misuse
Psychiatry - standards
Coercion
Freedom
Paternalism
Social Problems
Treatment Refusal - psychology
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