Thomas Szasz (1920-2012) was professor of psychiatry emeritus at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York and adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, Washington, DC. He was a prominent figure in the anti-psychiatry movement and a critic of the moral and scientific foundation of psychiatry.
-Szasz marshals the evidence and lays out the history and current
practice of psychiatric oppression as the most grievous remaining
violation of freedom, liberty and tolerance.... For clear
perspective and understanding it is important to know some history,
and in terms of the history of psychiatry, Coercion as Cure is a
great gift.- --Canadian Journal of the Humanities and Social
Sciences -A powerful and fittingly impassioned indictment of
psychiatrists who use coercion to 'treat' patients by the
psychiatrist who has done more than anyone else to challenge
psychiatry to abandon the destructive use of force and replace it
with consent, trust, and adherence to the Hippocratic injunction to
do no harm.- --George J. Annas, professor of health law, bioethics,
and human rights, Boston University Schools of Public Health,
Medicine, and Law -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.- --Keith Hoeller, editor, Review of
Existential Psychology & Psychiatry -Bit by barbarous and bizarre'
bit, Thomas Szasz dismantles psychiatry's rickety scaffolding,
exposing over two centuries of physical torture and tortured logic.
Professor Szasz takes the necessary analytical and empirical
solvents to this state-empowered fraternity of sercereres. He also
supplies the only salve for the psychiatric violence he correctly
dubs 'psychiatric slavery' abolition: Now, 'Let the sunshine in.'-
--Ilana Mercer, libertarian columnist and writer, WorldNetDaily.com
-Thomas Szasz (Professor of Psychiatry emeritus, State University
of New York) presents Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of
Psychiatry, a stinging indictment that dares to question
conventional beliefs, and deconstructs modern psychiatry itself,
arguing that it has no right to be dubbed a medical science.
Coercion as Cure takes its title from Szasz's observation that the
defining features of psychiatry is its use of force-though
sometimes psychiatrists deal with voluntary patients, all too often
psychiatrists -diagnose- and -treat- people without their consent
or against their clearly expressed wishes. -The psychiatrist's
basic social mandate is the coercive-paternalistic protection of
the mental patient from himself and the public from the mental
patient. Yet, in the professional literature as well as the popular
media, this is the least noted feature of psychiatry as a medical
specialty...It would be difficult to exaggerate the extent to which
historians of psychiatry as well as mental health professionals and
journalists ignore, deny, and rationalize the involuntary, coerced,
forcibly imposed nature of psychiatric treatments.- A harchly
critical assessment of the modern psychiatric medical system.-
--The Midwest Book Review
"Szasz marshals the evidence and lays out the history and current
practice of psychiatric oppression as the most grievous remaining
violation of freedom, liberty and tolerance.... For clear
perspective and understanding it is important to know some history,
and in terms of the history of psychiatry, Coercion as Cure is a
great gift." --Canadian Journal of the Humanities and Social
Sciences "A powerful and fittingly impassioned indictment of
psychiatrists who use coercion to 'treat' patients by the
psychiatrist who has done more than anyone else to challenge
psychiatry to abandon the destructive use of force and replace it
with consent, trust, and adherence to the Hippocratic injunction to
do no harm." --George J. Annas, professor of health law, bioethics,
and human rights, Boston University Schools of Public Health,
Medicine, and Law "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." --Keith Hoeller, editor, Review of
Existential Psychology & Psychiatry "Bit by barbarous and bizarre'
bit, Thomas Szasz dismantles psychiatry's rickety scaffolding,
exposing over two centuries of physical torture and tortured logic.
Professor Szasz takes the necessary analytical and empirical
solvents to this state-empowered fraternity of sercereres. He also
supplies the only salve for the psychiatric violence he correctly
dubs 'psychiatric slavery' abolition: Now, 'Let the sunshine in.'"
--Ilana Mercer, libertarian columnist and writer, WorldNetDaily.com
"Thomas Szasz (Professor of Psychiatry emeritus, State University
of New York) presents Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of
Psychiatry, a stinging indictment that dares to question
conventional beliefs, and deconstructs modern psychiatry itself,
arguing that it has no right to be dubbed a medical science.
Coercion as Cure takes its title from Szasz's observation that the
defining features of psychiatry is its use of force-though
sometimes psychiatrists deal with voluntary patients, all too often
psychiatrists "diagnose" and "treat" people without their consent
or against their clearly expressed wishes. "The psychiatrist's
basic social mandate is the coercive-paternalistic protection of
the mental patient from himself and the public from the mental
patient. Yet, in the professional literature as well as the popular
media, this is the least noted feature of psychiatry as a medical
specialty...It would be difficult to exaggerate the extent to which
historians of psychiatry as well as mental health professionals and
journalists ignore, deny, and rationalize the involuntary, coerced,
forcibly imposed nature of psychiatric treatments." A harchly
critical assessment of the modern psychiatric medical system."
--The Midwest Book Review
"Szasz marshals the evidence and lays out the history and current
practice of psychiatric oppression as the most grievous remaining
violation of freedom, liberty and tolerance.... For clear
perspective and understanding it is important to know some history,
and in terms of the history of psychiatry, "Coercion as Cure" is a
great gift." --Canadian Journal of the Humanities and Social
Sciences "A powerful and fittingly impassioned indictment of
psychiatrists who use coercion to 'treat' patients by the
psychiatrist who has done more than anyone else to challenge
psychiatry to abandon the destructive use of force and replace it
with consent, trust, and adherence to the Hippocratic injunction to
do no harm." --George J. Annas, professor of health law, bioethics,
and human rights, Boston University Schools of Public Health,
Medicine, and Law "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." --Keith Hoeller, editor, "Review of
Existential Psychology & Psychiatry" "Bit by barbarous and bizarre'
bit, Thomas Szasz dismantles psychiatry's rickety scaffolding,
exposing over two centuries of physical torture and tortured logic.
Professor Szasz takes the necessary analytical and empirical
solvents to this state-empowered fraternity of sercereres. He also
supplies the only salve for the psychiatric violence he correctly
dubs 'psychiatric slavery' abolition: Now, 'Let the sunshine in.'"
--Ilana Mercer, libertarian columnist and writer, WorldNetDaily.com
"Thomas Szasz (Professor of Psychiatry emeritus, State University
of New York) presents "Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of
Psychiatry," a stinging indictment that dares to question
conventional beliefs, and deconstructs modern psychiatry itself,
arguing that it has no right to be dubbed a medical science.
"Coercion as Cure" takes its title from Szasz's observation that
the defining features of psychiatry is its use of force-though
sometimes psychiatrists deal with voluntary patients, all too often
psychiatrists "diagnose" and "treat" people without their consent
or against their clearly expressed wishes. "The psychiatrist's
basic social mandate is the coercive-paternalistic protection of
the mental patient from himself and the public from the mental
patient. Yet, in the professional literature as well as the popular
media, this is the least noted feature of psychiatry as a medical
specialty...It would be difficult to exaggerate the extent to which
historians of psychiatry as well as mental health professionals and
journalists ignore, deny, and rationalize the involuntary, coerced,
forcibly imposed nature of psychiatric treatments." A harchly
critical assessment of the modern psychiatric medical system."
"--The Midwest Book Review"
"Szasz marshals the evidence and lays out the history and current
practice of psychiatric oppression as the most grievous remaining
violation of freedom, liberty and tolerance.... For clear
perspective and understanding it is important to know some history,
and in terms of the history of psychiatry, "Coercion as Cure" is a
great gift."--Canadian Journal of the Humanities and Social
Sciences"A powerful and fittingly impassioned indictment of
psychiatrists who use coercion to 'treat' patients by the
psychiatrist who has done more than anyone else to challenge
psychiatry to abandon the destructive use of force and replace it
with consent, trust, and adherence to the Hippocratic injunction to
do no harm."--George J. Annas, professor of health law, bioethics,
and human rights, Boston University Schools of Public Health,
Medicine, and Law"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."--Keith Hoeller, editor, "Review of
Existential Psychology & Psychiatry""Bit by barbarous and bizarre'
bit, Thomas Szasz dismantles psychiatry's rickety scaffolding,
exposing over two centuries of physical torture and tortured logic.
Professor Sz
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