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Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted PDF

272 Pages·1994·11.531 MB·English
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by Thomas Stephen Szasz| 1994| 272 pages| 11.531| English

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This study examines ways in which psychiatry is used to control, segregate, and "treat" society's unwanted: adult dependents, the homeless, and those labelled mentally ill. Just as society once put the indigent in the poorhouse and workhouse, housed epileptics in state institutions, and imprisoned defaulting debtors, today coercive psychiatric practices are used to dispose of "undesirable" persons. But such coercion, the author contends, is counterproductive, injurious to the individual's dignity and liberty, and morally wrong. He argues that society must reject the infantilization of mental patients, and accord them the same rights and freedoms due those with bodily illness or no illness at all.

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Author:Thomas Stephen Szasz
Publication Year:1994
ISBN:9780471010128
Pages:272
Language:English
File Size:11.531
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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