Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry

Thomas Szasz
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Szasz argues that the word schizophrenia does not stand for a genuine disease, that psychiatry has invented the concept as a sacred symbol to justify the practice of locking up people against their will and treating them with a variety of unwanted, unsolicited, and damaging interventions.



Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Syracuse University Publications in Continuin
Published: 01/01/2004
ISBN: 9780815602248
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.41h x 5.28w x 0.69d