A Lexicon of Lunacy

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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
111
199

The Religion Called Psychiatry
101
Mental Illness and Mental Incompetence
111

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