Psychiatric Slavery

In this short work, Dr. Szasz takes aim at conventional psychiatry, and at the attendent system of courts, hospitals, and psychiatrists who confine patients against their will. The focal point is a Supreme Court case involving a man forcibly committed to a Florida asylum for 14 years. In refuting the widely held notion that the Donaldson case represents an advancement in the rights of mental patients, Dr. Szasz has put the American legal establishments on trial.

Author: Thomas Szasz
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 04/01/1998
Pages: 188
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.53w x 0.42d
ISBN: 9780815605119