A Lexicon of LunacyTransaction Publishers - 202 pages |
Contents
Shakespeares Plays | 13 |
The Contemporary Scene | 21 |
Dictionaries of Deviance 3233 13 | 37 |
A DSMIIIR Classification of Mental Disorders | 40 |
B Synonyms for Mental Illness | 46 |
Synonyms for Mental Hospital 4 Dictionaries of Drunkenness A Benjamin Franklins The Drinkers Dictionary | 83 |
B Edmund Wilsons The Lexicon of Prohibition | 89 |
METAPHORIC MALADY MORAL RESPONSIBILITY AND PSYCHIATRY | 99 |
The Illusion of Mental Patients Rights | 127 |
The Illusion of Drug Abuse Treatment | 143 |
The Case Against Suicide Prevention | 147 |
The Psychiatric Will | 159 |
Ex Parte Psychiatry | 173 |
Epilogue | 183 |
Notes | 187 |
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Other editions - View all
A Lexicon of Lunacy: Metaphoric Malady, Moral Responsibility and Psychiatry Thomas Szasz Limited preview - 2017 |
A Lexicon of Lunacy: Metaphoric Malady, Moral Responsibility, and Psychiatry Thomas Stephen Szasz No preview available - 1993 |
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