Thomas Szasz
Thomas Szasz was a Hungarian-American psychiatrist and academic, best known for his radical critique of psychiatry and the concept of mental illness. He argued that mental illness is a metaphor and that psychiatric diagnosis often serves as a means of social control. His influential works, including 'The Myth of Mental Illness,' sparked widespread debate in the fields of psychiatry and psychology.
Psychiatry
Psychology
Philosophy
Social Criticism
Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry
Psychiatry: The Science of Lies
The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing as Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression
The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays
Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers
Suicide Prohibition: The Shame of Medicine
The Age of Madness
A Lexicon of Lunacy: Metaphoric Malady, Moral Responsibility and Psychiatry
Closed Systems and Open Minds: The Limits of Naivety in Social Anthropology