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The Myth of Mental Illness (Thomas S. Szasz)
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The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct is Thomas S. Szasz influential 1961 critique of psychiatry, medical authority, and the language used to classify human suffering. Written by a psychiatrist trained in psychoanalysis, the book is not a clinical manual but a work of philosophical, legal, and social criticism. Its central claim is that mental illness is not a literal disease in the same sense as bodily illness, but a metaphor applied to conduct, conflict, and distress. Szasz argues that many psychiatric diagnoses name problems in living rather than identifiable biological pathologies. The book aims to separate medicine from moral judgment, voluntary help from coercion, and human agency from disease explanations. It became a defining text for critics of psychiatric power, civil libertarians, and scholars concerned with the ethics of involuntary treatment, while also provoking strong opposition from mainstream psychiatry and later biological approaches to mental disorder.
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The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct is Thomas S. Szasz influential 1961 critique of psychiatry, medical authority, and the language used to classify human suffering. Written by a psychiatrist trained in psychoanalysis, the book is not a clinical manual but a work of philosophical, legal, and social criticism. Its central claim is that mental illness is not a literal disease in the same sense as bodily illness, but a metaphor applied to conduct, conflict, and distress. Szasz argues that many psychiatric diagnoses name problems in living rather than identifiable biological pathologies. The book aims to separate medicine from moral judgment, voluntary help from coercion, and human agency from disease explanations. It became a defining text for critics of psychiatric power, civil libertarians, and scholars concerned with the ethics of involuntary treatment, while also provoking strong opposition from mainstream psychiatry and later biological approaches to mental disorder.
