Cruel Compassion is the capstone of Thomas Szasz's critique of psychiatric practices. Reexamining psychiatric interventions from a cultural-historical and political-economic perspective, Szasz demonstrates that the main problem that faces mental health policy makers today is adu…
Kritiek op de moderne praktijk van dwangverpleging van voornamelijk volwassen psychiatrische patiënten
Cruel Compassion is the capstone of Thomas Szasz's critique of psychiatric practices. Reexamining psychiatric interventions from a cultural-historical and political-economic perspective, Szasz demonstrates that the main problem that faces mental health policy makers today is adu…
In an effort to enlighten a new generation about its growing reliance on psychiatry, this illuminating volume investigates why psychiatry has become the fastest-growing medical field in history; why psychiatric drugs are now more widely prescribed than ever before; and why psych…
In an effort to enlighten a new generation about its growing reliance on psychiatry, this illuminating volume investigates why psychiatry has become the fastest-growing medical field in history ; why psychiatric drugs are now more widely prescribed than ever before ; and why psy…
In an effort to enlighten a new generation about its growing reliance on psychiatry, this illuminating volume investigates why psychiatry has become the fastest-growing medical field in history; why psychiatric drugs are now more widely prescribed than ever before; and why psych…
La folle histoire des idées folles en psychiatrie
Contradictions, errements, lubies, impasses, sadisations : la psychiatrie, en France et dans le monde, a une histoire qui peut faire peur quand on l'examine de près, car, comme toute discipline médicale, elle a eu du mal à naître. Au nom de quoi, par exemple, pendant la Grande G…
"Psychiatry is now a dismal failure. From a strictly medical viewpoint - it doesn't work. Its insistence on a banal mechanistic approach is simplistic and grossly inappropriate. Its obstinate over-reliance on drugs results in epidemics, not cures"--Chapter 1
