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Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry

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Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry - Szasz, Thomas
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Szasz argues that the word schizophrenia does not stand for a genuine disease, that psychiatry has invented the concept as a sacred symbol to justify the practice of locking up people against their will and treating them with a variety of unwanted, unsolicited, and damaging interventions.

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Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry 1988, Syracuse University Publications in Continuing Education, Syracuse

ISBN-13: 9780815602248

Syracuse Univ PR edition

Trade paperback

Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry 1979, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780192176790

Hardcover