Psychiatry, Coercion as Cure, Thomas Szasz Book Review

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Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry
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Psychiatry, Coercion as Cure, Thomas Szasz Book Review

Dr. Breeding reviews the book, "Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry" by psychiatrist, Thomas S. Szasz.

"Nearly all books on the history of psychiatry have been written by people who wholeheartedly believe in the reality of `mental illness.' At long last we have a history of psychiatry by the very man who nearly fifty years ago declared mental illness to be a myth. Stripping away centuries of self-serving propaganda written by psychiatry's acolytes, Dr. Thomas Szasz gives us a radically new look at the history of the world's most dangerous political religions. From the eighteenth century's `trade in lunacy' to the nineteenth century's `insane asylums' to the twentieth century's `snake pits' to the twenty-first century's `outpatient commitment,' Szasz gives us a radically different perspective on the major episodes in the history of psychiatry. After Coercion as Cure, we will never be able to look at psychiatry again as a legitimate claimant to the throne of medical science."

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[DesteniPoliticsAus]

Psychiatry is the new money engine

For money as God

The true god nobody wants to admit exists

Because his love is the root of all evil

[musicldy61]

I would love to write a book about all trials and tribulations I have had with the bout they labeled me with bi-polar. Which is actually Trama caused by my ego or self status in the world. I actually cam corded my mania as I could feel it coming on. I had and actual cam recording with my doctors visit with his consent.before I was pushed by family into the hospital. They wanted me to be sedated and kept in a state they could control my thinking. Then and their I found theunderlying truthabus

[whiff1962]

And there is no hard evidence at present that clearly marks off any mental illness with its biological cause. There are, of course, all the bells and whistles at the employ of the therapeutists, and such pseudoscientific blandishments do serve the enterprise well in the furtherance of its many agenda-and of the continued pouring in of federal-state dollars! Psychiatry is a moral-legalistic enterprise, and one that never seeks earnest confrontation and self-corrections. All the better.

[whiff1962]

@persianelephant It is inconceivable that doctors get into psychiatry for reasons other than compassionate care for human suffering? When I too was a member of the faith of psychiatric mysticism, I nevertheless came away with the feeling that I was being talked down to. In retrospect, I have never met a shrink I liked. As for the assertion that shrinks help people live normal lives, I say that speaks volumes of the self-importance of these social engineers. I think you are proselytizing.

[Transmintosity]

@prettyposeur It is just that psychiatric dogmas are so embedded in the fabric of the mass psyche, we have lost touch of reality. I'm sorry to shock you, but people don't tend to experience coercion as therapeutic, but as an act of existential violence. They find it emasculating, and an encroachment on their private space. Sadly, we have been culturally conditioned to believe that these people literally NEED help. Every man has a right to be let alone.

[Transmintosity]

@prettyposeur The reason why the don't want help is because they don't need it. It's all lies. Your comment also seems to presuppose that psychiatrists have the panaceas for all human ills. This doesn't comport well with the truth. The reason why they don't want help is not because of anosognosia or anything, but because they are human beings who don't want help, and they should be treated pursuant to the rights enshrined in the constitution.

[Transmintosity]

@whiff1962 It isn't even a right, is it? What next, the right of disenfranchised, sexually frustrated people to be raped by those in power for their 'libidinal illness', the act detoxified with the language of therapeutism and paternalism? It is the psychiatrist's right, the community's right, the government's right, the family's right, but not the powerless individual's right.

[Transmintosity]

I have been in two hospitals over the last ten years, everyday a number of people were held there against their will, whether they went in voluntarily or not. Once you are in there, you have no legal recourse, as I found out, yet the toadying lay apologists for psychiatric authority like persianelephant deny this reality, well documented in the literature. What you must ask is, for whose benefit is this denial and implicit mockery of the suffering of others? Despicable toads!

[Transmintosity]

@persianelephant You are simply wrong, and your pro-psychiatric slavery agenda makes me want to puke. If you actually read Szasz, instead of just reading people who prettify the actions of those psychiatrists you are so enamoured of. Cui bono? Or are you just extremely ignorant the nature of psychiatry? There by their own free will? You can't conceal a lie forever my friend.

[Transmintosity]

@persianelephant Psychiatrists are arseholes, habitually practising coercion and violence; forcing people to take some of the most toxic drugs in the entire pharmacopeia, only to have you fritter away your sentiments on the poor oppressors, ah, diddums! If psychiatrists were of a highly developed moral code, then they wouldn't be psychiatrists.