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Books on psychiatry by the author

  • The Myth of Mental Illness (New York: Hoeber-Harper, 1961). A critical analysis of the origins, nature, and social uses of the concept of mental illness.

  • Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963). A review and documentation of legal mental-health practices that deprive people of civil rights.

  • The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (New York: Basic Books, 1965). A study of the psychoanalytic relationship as a human situation, rather than as a medical or therapeutic situation.

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Thomas S. Szasz is a practicing psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical Center at Syracuse. His works in progress include an anthology on mental hospitalization as seen by the patient, and a historical study of involuntary mental hospitalization, the concept of mental illness, and the process of creating scapegoats for society.

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Szasz, T.S. The psychiatrist as double agent. Trans-action 4, 17–24 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03180072

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