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Liberation by oppression : a comparative study of slavery and psychiatry / Thomas Szasz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Szasz, Thomas, 1920-2012.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychiatric hospitals--United States.
- Psychiatric hospitals.
- Paternalism--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Paternalism.
- People with social disabilities.
- Mental health services.
- Mentally ill--Treatment.
- History.
- Mentally ill.
- Involuntary treatment--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Involuntary treatment.
- United States.
- Slavery--United States--History.
- Slavery.
- Mentally ill--Treatment--History.
- People with social disabilities--Mental health services.
- Psychiatric ethics.
- Social control.
- Antipsychiatry.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 237 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, [2002]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Perilous Rescues 1
- 1. Psychiatric Slavery: Legal Fiction and the Rhetoric of Therapeutic Oppression 13
- 2. The Psychiatric Slave Status: From Dred Scott to Tarasoff 35
- 3. Psychiatric Slavery as Public Health: Infection and Insanity 55
- 4. Justifying Psychiatric Slavery: "Dangerousness" as Disease 75
- 5. Jim Crow Psychiatry I: The Psychiatric Will and Its Enemies 87
- 6. Jim Crow Psychiatry II: The Patient Self-Determination Act 105
- 7. Expanding Psychiatric Slavery: Outpatient Commitment 121
- 8. Glorifying Psychiatric Slavery: Therapeutic Jurisprudence 147
- Epilogue: "Liberty is the Prevention of Control by Others" 165
- Appendix I. The Power of False Truths: The Maternity Hospital and the Mental Hospital 169
- Appendix II. Victims of Psychiatric Slavery: A Sampler 179.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0765801450
- OCLC:
- 48170938
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