Table of Contents

About the Editors
About the Contributors
C.V. Haldipur, James L. Knoll IV, and Eric v.d. Luft: Introduction
Part I. Intellectual Roots of Szasz's Thought
1: Stephen Wilson: Study on the Szaszophone: Theme and Variations
2: Jan Pols: Leading Up to The Myth of Mental Illness
3: Eric v.d. Luft: Philosophical Influences on Thomas Szasz
4: John Z. Sadler: Conceptual Models of Normative Content in Mental Disorders
Part II. The Concept of Mental Illness
5: George J. Annas: Szasz, Suicide, and Medical Ethics
6: Robert W. Daly: Agency, Mental Illness, and Psychiatry: A Response to Thomas Szasz
7: K.W.M. Fulford: Taking Szasz Seriously and his Critics Too: Thesis, Antithesis, and a Values-Based Synthesis
8: E. Fuller Torrey: Schizophrenia: Sacred Symbol or Achilles Heel
9: James L. Knoll IV: Suicide Prohibition: Shame, Blame, or Social Aim?
10: Jennifer Church: Myths, Projections, and Overextensions: The Conceptual Landscape of Thomas Szasz
11: Mantosh J. Dewan and Eugene A. Kaplan: The Clinical Wisdom of Thomas Szasz
12: Ronald W. Pies: Thomas Szasz and the Language of Mental Illness
Part III. Szasz's Larger Impact
13: Allen Frances: The Myth and Reality of Mental Illness
14: Nancy Nyquist Potter: Reform and Revolution in the Context of Critical Psychiatry and Service-User / Survivor Movements
15: Neil Pickering: Thomas Szasz and the Insanity Defense
16: Marisola Xhelili Ciaccio: Bringing Psychopaths into the Moral Community: Reassessing Agency Cultivation and Social Participation
17: Mona Gupta: Mental Illness is Not a Myth: Epistemic Favoritism in Research Funding
18: Jennifer Radden: Rights, Responsibilities, and Mental Illnesses: A Chronology of the Szasz Decades
19: Thomas Schramme: Szasz's Legacy and Current Challenges in Psychiatry
C.V. Haldipur: Epilogue
Index

About the Author

C.V. Haldipur is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, SUNY Upstate Medical University. He met Thomas Szasz, then already at Upstate, when he was a trainee in England in the 1960s, maintained correspondence with Szasz, and eventually joined the same faculty after completing his psychiatric training in Cambridge and Edinburgh. Haldipur has held various academic and administrative positions at Upstate, including Director of Medical Student Education in
the Department of Psychiatry and Co-Director of the required Practice of Medicine (POM) course for all first and second-year medical students. He is a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a
Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. James L. Knoll IV, is Director of Forensic Psychiatry and Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University. He has worked as a forensic evaluator for state and federal courts, corrections, and the private sector. He is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Psychiatric Times and a contributing editor for the Correctional Mental Health Report. He has authored over 150 publications in journals and book chapters. His afterword to David
Kaczynski's memoir, Every Last Tie: The Story of the Unabomber and His Family, was published by Duke University Press in 2016. He has authored chapters in two well-received books from Oxford University
Press: Stalking: Psychiatric Perspectives and Practical Approaches, edited by Debra A. Pinals (2007), and the Oxford Textbook of Correctional Psychiatry, edited by Robert L. Trestman et al. (2015). Knoll developed an academic friendship with Szasz in Upstate's Department of Psychiatry. Eric v.d. Luft earned his B.A. magna cum laude in philosophy and religion at Bowdoin College in 1974, his Ph.D. in philosophy at Bryn Mawr College in 1985, and his M.L.S. at Syracuse University in 1993. From 1987
to 2006 he was Curator of Historical Collections at SUNY Upstate Medical University. He has taught at Villanova University, Syracuse University, Upstate, and the College of Saint Rose. He is the
author, editor, or translator of over 640 publications in philosophy, religion, librarianship, history, history of medicine, and nineteenth-century studies, including Hegel, Hinrichs, and Schleiermacher on Feeling and Reason in Religion: The Texts of Their 1821-22 Debate (1987), God, Evil, and Ethics: A Primer in the Philosophy of Religion (2004), A Socialist Manifesto (2007), Die at the Right Time: A Subjective Cultural History of the American Sixties (2009), Ruminations: Selected
Philosophical, Historical, and Ideological Papers (vol. 1, 2010; vol. 2, 2013), and The Value of Suicide (2012).

Reviews

why is it that Szasz continues to intrigue (as well as infuriate) so many? To paraphrase one contributor to this collection, "Szasz asked the right questions, even if he did not always have the right answers." His questions endure and provoke even more questions. This book includes excellent resources and offers equally enduring responses. Thomas Szasz: An Appraisal of his Legacy is highly recommended for practicing and academic and forensic psychiatrists and for philosophers.
*Sharon Packer, Metapsychology Online Reviews*

Silver tarnishes in your china cabinet, whereas scouring and buffing restores its gleam. The editors' decision to take that approach in this collection - tough love, not unconditional love - makes Thomas Szasz: an appraisal of his legacy an important assessment of his thought. It deserves to be read, discussed, and debated widely.
*Michael Fontaine, PhD, Mad in America*

For those with an interest in psychiatric theory, the conceptualization of mental illness, and the history of psychiatry, Thomas Szasz: An Appraisal of His Legacy represents a must-read. Undoubtedly, it captures the essence of the man who forever changed the dialogue on mental illness.
*Mark L. Ruffalo, D.Psa., L.C.S.W., Psychology Today*

They have compiled an extraordinary group of psychiatrists, philosophers, ethicists, social scientists, researchers, humanists, and forensic experts - many who knew Dr Szasz personally or who had debated him in public or on paper, or both. Yet this edited compilation is not hagiography; instead, it is a penetrating, deep, and intrepid exploration of Szasz's oeuvre, and the indelible impact he has had on the practice of psychiatry, in this country and abroad.
*Filippo M. Sposini, History Psychiatry*

For those who knew or read this extraordinary man, your reading Thomas Szasz: An Appraisal of His Legacy will light up your remembrances. For those who barely know him or his work, you will surely be amazed by his contributions.
*Lloyd I. Sederer, MD, Psychiatric times*