Law, Liberty and Psychiatry: An Inquiry into the Social Uses of Mental Health Practices, Volume 10Dr. Thomas Szasz on the shortcomings of commitment procedures, and the inadequacies of protections afforded patients in psychiatric institutions. He alerts us to the existing and potential abuses of human rights in mental health programs and procedures. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
What Is Mental Illness? | 11 |
Disease or Derogation? | 18 |
Classification in Psychiatry | 24 |
Commitment of the Mentally Ill | 39 |
False Commitment | 57 |
Testamentary Capacity | 72 |
Psychiatric Power and Social Action | 79 |
for Freedom | 169 |
The Abridgment of the Constitutional Rights | 182 |
The Case | 193 |
The Case | 199 |
Toward the Therapeutic State | 212 |
Proposals for Reform in the Mental Health Field | 223 |
Summary and Conclusions | 237 |
Epilogue | 254 |
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