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Psychiatry

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

Psychiatry

By Thomas Szasz

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About the book

For more than a half century Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a thorough and provocative critique of the practice of psychiatry. In many ways his latest work, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, is a culmination of his life's work: to portray the integral role of deception in the history and practice of psychiatry. Szasz argues that the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness stands in the same relationship to the diagnosis and treatment of bodily illness that the forgery of a paint...Show more

Abnormal psychology

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9780815607922

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Syracuse University Press

Published year

2019

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1

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Psychiatry

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