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In a short, powerfully written book, Dr. Szasz takes aim once more at conventional psychiatry, which labels individuals 'mentally ill, ' and at the attendant system of courts, hospitals, and psychiatrists who confine patients against their will . . . [He] has put the American psychiatric and legal establishments on trial, with disturbing results. He investigates abuses in diagnostic methods, electroshock 'therapy' and the judicial apparatus . . . Essential reading for those concerned with the care of the emotionally disturbed and the moral dilemmas of psychiatry.-- Publishers Weekly

In a short, powerfully written book, Dr. Szasz takes aim once more at conventional psychiatry, which labels individuals 'mentally ill, ' and at the attendant system of courts, hospitals, and psychiatrists who confine patients against their will . . . [He] has put the American psychiatric and legal establishments on trial, with disturbing results. He investigates abuses in diagnostic methods, electroshock 'therapy' and the judicial apparatus . . . Essential reading for those concerned with the care of the emotionally disturbed and the moral dilemmas of psychiatry.-- ""Publishers Weekly""

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Thomas Szasz is the author of over six hundred articles and twenty-four books. He was a practicing psychiatrist and is a professor of psychiatry emeritus at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York.

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