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Dr. Szasz mounts an incisive two-pronged assault on modern psychiatry and what he regards as its mirror-image, the 'anti-psychiatry' of R. D. Laing and his followers. . . . Timely and urgent reading.--Publishers Weekly Szasz argues that the word schizophrenia does not stand for a genuine disease, that psychiatry has invented the concept as a sacred symbol to justify the practice of locking up people against their will and treating them with a variety of unwanted, unsolicited, and damaging interventions. . . . Szasz is an incisive, exciting, and dramatic writer. He loves the clever analogy, the well-turned phrase, the dramatic surprise.--George W. Albee, Contemporary Psychology Szasz is a valuable critic and agent provocateur. . . . Szasz has much to say which requires answering.--Anthony Storrs, Spectator

Szasz argues that the word schizophrenia does not stand for a genuine disease, that psychiatry has invented the concept as a sacred symbol to justify the practice of locking up people against their will and treating them with a variety of unwanted, unsolicited, and damaging interventions. . . . Szasz is an incisive, exciting, and dramatic writer. He loves the clever analogy, the well-turned phrase, the dramatic surprise. Szasz is a valuable critic and agent provocateur. . . . Szasz has much to say which requires answering. Dr. Szasz mounts an incisive two-pronged assault on modern psychiatry and what he regards as its mirror-image, the 'anti-psychiatry' of R. D. Laing and his followers. . . . Timely and urgent reading.

Dr. Szasz mounts an incisive two-pronged assault on modern psychiatry and what he regards as its mirror-image, the 'anti-psychiatry' of R. D. Laing and his followers. . . . Timely and urgent reading.-- ""Publishers Weekly"" Szasz argues that the word schizophrenia does not stand for a genuine disease, that psychiatry has invented the concept as a sacred symbol to justify the practice of locking up people against their will and treating them with a variety of unwanted, unsolicited, and damaging interventions. . . . Szasz is an incisive, exciting, and dramatic writer. He loves the clever analogy, the well-turned phrase, the dramatic surprise.-- ""George W. Albee, Contemporary Psychology"" Szasz is a valuable critic and agent provocateur. . . . Szasz has much to say which requires answering.-- ""Anthony Storrs, Spectator""

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Thomas Szasz is the author of over four hundred articles and nineteen books; among the most recent are The Therapeutic State: Psychiatry in the Mirror of Current Events and Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences. He was both a practicing psychiatrist and a professor of psychiatry at the Health Science Center, State University of New York, in Syracuse.

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