Résultats pour "Thomas Szasz" dans Santé mentale

For more than half a century, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, is a culmination of his life’s work: to portray the integral role of deception in the history and practice of psychiatry. Szasz argues that the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness stands in the same relationship to the diagnosis and treatment of bodily illness that the forgery of a painting does to the original masterpiece.

A searing account of the ways in which mental health culture distorts out understanding of mental illness, abandons the severely ill, and threatens the lives of millions who desperately need care. Mental health culture in the 21st century is broken. After decades of influence from the...