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Madness is a surrender of free will; Therapy too often encourages it. A libertarian view of psychology and psychiatry

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  1. the Center for the Study of Psychiatry, Inc., 4628 Chestnut St., 20014, Washington, D.C.

    Peter R. Breggin M.D.

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This paper was delivered at The International Congress of Psychoanalysis on Madness, December 1–4 1976, Milan, Italy.

Published in French as La folie est une reddition du libre arbitre; la therapie l'encourage trop souvent. In Armando Verdiglione (ed): Paris,La Folie dans la Psychanalyse. Paris Editions Payot, 1977.

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Breggin, P.R. Madness is a surrender of free will; Therapy too often encourages it. A libertarian view of psychology and psychiatry. Psych Quart 53, 60–68 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01065095

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