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THOMAS SZASZ (1920 - )

CONFERENCES

• The Myth of Mental Illness?  Philosophy, Psychiatry, Morality and the Mind, Southampton Solent University, October 27

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 2007.

  • Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1970.

• Edited Works:

  • The Age of Madness: A History of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization Presented in Selected Texts. New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1973.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Psychiatry: the Science of Lies.  Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2008.

  • Coercion as Cure: a Critical History of Psychiatry.  Somerset, NJ: Transaction, 2007.

  • My Madness Saved Me: the Madness and Marriage of Virginia Woolf.  New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2006.

  • Faith in Freedom: Libertarian Principles and Psychiatric Practices.  New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2004.

  • Words to the Wise: a Medical-Philosophical Dictionary.  New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2004.

  • Liberation by Oppression: a Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry.  New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2002.

  • Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996.

  • Fatal Freedom: the Ethics and Politics of Suicide.  Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.

  • The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality, and Neuroscience.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996.

  • Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America. Westport CT: Praeger, 1996.

  • A Lexicon of Lunacy: Metaphoric Malady, Responsibility, and Psychiatry.  New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1993.

  • Our Right to Drugs: the Case for a Free Market.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1992.

  • The Untamed Tongue: a Dissenting Dictionary.  Chicago: Open Court, 1990.

  • Insanity: the Idea and its Consequences.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1987.

  • The Therapeutic State: Psychiatry in the Mirror of Current Events.  Buffalo: Prometheus, 1984.

  • Sex by Prescription.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1980.

  • The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing as Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1978.

  • Psychiatric Slavery: When Confinement and Coercion Masquerade as Cure.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1977.

  • The Theology of Medicine: the Political-Philosophical Foundations of Medical Ethics.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1977.

  • Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus and his Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1976.  Rpt. as Karl Kraus and the Soul-Doctors: a Pioneer Critic and his Criticism of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1990.

  • Ceremonial Chemistry: the Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers.  Holmes Beach, FL: Learning Publications, 1976.

  • Heresies.  New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1976.

  • Schizophrenia: the Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1976.

  • The Second Sin.  New York: Doubleday, 1973.

  • The Manufacture of Madness: a Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1970.

  • The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: the Theory and Method of Autonomous Psychotherapy.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1965.

  • Psychiatric Justice.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1965.

  • Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry: an Inquiry into the Social Uses of Mental Health Practices.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1963.

  • The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct.  New York: Harper & Row, 1961.

  • Pain and Pleasure: a Study of Bodily Feelings.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1957.

On-Line:

• Archives:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • On the Future of Psychotherapy

  • The Case against Coercion (1997)

  • The Moral Physician (1977)

  • The Myth of Mental Illness (1960)

• Selected Interviews:

  • Thomas Szasz Speaks: Interview with Natasha Mitchell.  All in the Mind.  ABC National Radio April 4, 2009.

  • Liberty and the Practice of Psychotherapy: Interview with Randall C. Wyatt (2001)

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • J. A. Schaler, ed.  Szasz Under Fire: the Psychiatric Abolitionist Faces His Critics.  Chicago: Open Court, 2004.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Vatz, Richard E., and Lee S. Weinberg.  Thomas Szasz: Primary Values and Major Contentions.  Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 1983.

On-Line:

• FTR: Thomas Stephen Szasz
• Leifer, Ron: The Psychiatric Repression of Thomas Szasz: its Social and Political Significance
• Oliver, Jeffrey: The Myth of Thomas Szasz The New Atlantis 13 (2006): 68-84.
• Talbot, Rene: Thomas Szasz' Impact on Political Issues

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Thomas Szasz

WWW GATEWAYS

• Ogilby, Stewart: Thomas Szasz: Unmasking the Quackery of Psychiatry

• Sullum, Jacob: Thomas Szasz Takes on his Critics Reason Magazine (May 2005)

• Thomas S. Szasz Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility

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