Research Catalog

Title

Liberation by oppression : a comparative study of slavery and psychiatry / Thomas Szasz.

Author

Szasz, Thomas, 1920-2012.

Publication

New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, c2002.

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Description

xiii, 237 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Antipsychiatry
• Coercion
• Coercion > United States
• Commitment of Mentally Ill
• Commitment of Mentally Ill > United States
• Freedom
• Health Services Misuse
• Health Services Misuse > United States
• Involuntary treatment > Moral and ethical aspects
• Mentally ill > History
• Paternalism
• Paternalism > Moral and ethical aspects
• People with social disabilities > Mental health services
• Psychiatric ethics
• Psychiatric hospitals > United States
• Psychiatry > standards
• Psychiatry > standards > United States
• Slavery > United States > History
• Social Problems
• Social control
• Treatment Refusal > psychiatry
• Treatment Refusal > psychology
• United States

Note

• List of the author's works on verso of half t.p.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-229) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Perilous Rescues -- 1. Psychiatric Slavery: Legal Fiction and the Rhetoric of Therapeutic Oppression -- 2. The Psychiatric Slave Status: From Dred Scott to Tarasoff -- 3. Psychiatric Slavery as Public Health: Infection and Insanity -- 4. Justifying Psychiatric Slavery: "Dangerousness" as Disease -- 5. Jim Crow Psychiatry I: The Psychiatric Will and Its Enemies -- 6. Jim Crow Psychiatry II: The Patient Self-Determination Act -- 7. Expanding Psychiatric Slavery: Outpatient Commitment -- 8. Glorifying Psychiatric Slavery: Therapeutic Jurisprudence -- Epilogue: "Liberty is the Prevention of Control by Others" -- App. I. The Power of False Truths: The Maternity Hospital and the Mental Hospital.

ISBN

0765801450 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001052503

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library