Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-430) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / by Jeffrey A. Schaler -- An autobiographical sketch / by Thomas Szasz -- The myth of mental illness / R.E. Kendell -- Values-based medicine : Thomas Szasz's Legacy to twenty-first century psychiatry / K.W.M. Fulford -- Persons and Popper's world 3 : do humans dream of abstract sheep? / Ray Scott Percival -- On Thomas Szasz, the meaning of mental illness and the therapeutic state : a critique / Ralph Slovenko -- Prescribed addiction / Stanton Peele -- The legitimacy of the defense of insanity / Rita J. Simon -- Pharmacracy or phantom? / E. James Lieberman -- Bombing the cradles : the disorder mental effects of off-the-chart life experiences : mother-assault; sexual abuse and domestic violence; natural disasters; political violence and war / Margaret A. Hagen -- What kind of freedom? : Szasz's misleading perception of physician-assisted suicide / Margaret P. Battin and Ryan Spellecy -- Sideshow : schizophrenia as construed by Szasz and the neo-kraepelinians / Richard Bentall -- Moving beyond the "myth" of mental illness / Ronald Pies -- Mental illness as a myth : a methodological re-interpretation / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
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