Sex by Prescription: The Startling Truth about Today's Sex Therapy

Thomas Stephen Szasz

Syracuse University Press, 1990 - Health & Fitness - 196 pages

For St Augustine, sexual desire was a disease; to the great doctors of coitus today, lack of sexual desire is a disease. For Dr Szasz, both these presumptions are absurd and unscientific. He argues persuasively that human sexuality - however it may be expressed - reveals and reflects who we are and who we want to be. There are no sexual disorders that need to be cured by sex therapies - there is only the never-ending task of having to develop and shape our lives. Szasz maintains that we evade that task by handing the management of our sexual lives over to sex education and sex therapists.

About the author

Thomas Szasz (1920-2012) was professor of psychiatry emeritus at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York and adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, Washington, DC. He was a prominent figure in the anti-psychiatry movement and a critic of the moral and scientific foundation of psychiatry.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sex by Prescription: The Startling Truth about Today's Sex Therapy
• Author: Thomas Stephen Szasz
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, revised
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 1990
• ISBN: 0815602502, 9780815602507
• Length: 196 pages
• Subjects: Health & Fitness / Sexuality; Medical / Health Care Delivery; Psychology / General; Self-Help / Sexual Instruction