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The Myth of Mental Illness:

Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
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HarperCollins Publishers, 1974 - Psychology - 297 pages
The author believes that what is nowadays accepted as mental illness is whatever psychiatrists say it is - and that psychiatry has, with increasing zeal, defined more and more kinds of behavior as mental illness. What is termed mental illness is in fact behavior disapproved of by the speaker.

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Contents

Introduction
1
Part
15
Illness and Counterfeit Illness
32
Copyright

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About the author (1974)

Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York in Syracuse, where he has taught since 1956.

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