Law, Liberty and Psychiatry

Law, Liberty and Psychiatry
Title Law, Liberty and Psychiatry PDF eBook
Author Thomas Szasz
Publisher Syracuse University Press
Pages 308
Release 1989-10-01
Genre Law
ISBN 9780815602422

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Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry

Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry
Title Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry PDF eBook
Author Thomas Stephen Szasz
Publisher
Pages 298
Release 1979
Genre Criminal liability
ISBN 9780020747703

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Faith in Freedom

Faith in Freedom
Title Faith in Freedom PDF eBook
Author Thomas Szasz
Publisher Routledge
Pages 393
Release 2017-07-12
Genre Medical
ISBN 1351520741

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The libertarian philosophy of freedom is characterized by two fundamental beliefs: the right to be left alone and the duty to leave others alone. Psychiatric practice routinely violates both of these beliefs. It is based on the notion that self-ownership—exemplified by suicide—is a not an inherent right, but a privilege subject to the review of psychiatrists as representatives of society. In Faith in Freedom, Thomas Szasz raises fundamental questions about psychiatric practices that inhibit an individual's right to freedom. His questions are fundamental. Is suicide an exercise of rightful self-ownership or a manifestation of mental disorder? Does involuntary confinement under psychiatric auspices constitute unjust imprisonment, or is it therapeutically justified hospitalization? Should forced psychiatric drugging be interpreted as assault and battery on the person or is it medical treatment? The ethical standards of psychiatric practice mandate that psychiatrists employ coercion. Forgoing such "intervention" is considered a dereliction of the psychiatrists' "duty to protect." How should friends of freedom—especially libertarians—deal with the conflict between elementary libertarian principles and prevailing psychiatric practices? In Faith in Freedom, Thomas Szasz addresses this question more directly and more profoundly than in any of his previous works.

Minding Justice

Minding Justice
Title Minding Justice PDF eBook
Author Christopher Slobogin
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 408
Release 2006
Genre Law
ISBN 9780674022041

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This comprehensive examination of the laws governing the punishment, detention, and protection of people with mental disabilities provides innovative solutions to problems associated with criminal responsibility, protection of society from "dangerous" individuals, and the state's authority to act paternalistically.

Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry

Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry
Title Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry PDF eBook
Author Thomas S. Szasz
Publisher
Pages
Release 2005
Genre Criminal liability
ISBN

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Law and Psychiatry

Law and Psychiatry
Title Law and Psychiatry PDF eBook
Author Michael S. Moore
Publisher CUP Archive
Pages 550
Release 1984-03-30
Genre Medical
ISBN 9780521255981

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This book is about the competing images of man offered us by the disciplines of law and psychiatry. Michael Moore describes the legal view of persons as rational and autonomous and defends it from the challenges presented by three psychiatric ideas: that badness is illness, that the unconscious rules our mental life, and that a person is a community of selves more than a unified single self. Using the tools of modern philosophy, he attempts to show that the moral metaphysical foundations of our law are not eroded by these challenges of psychiatry. The book thus seeks, through philosophy, to go beneath the centuries-old debates between lawyers and psychiatrists, and to reveal their hidden agreement about the nature of man. Some attention is paid to practical legal and psychiatric issues of contemporary concern, such as the proper definition of mental illness for psychiatric purposes, and the proper definition of legal insanity for legal purposes. This book was first announced, for publication in hard covers, in the Press's January to July seasonal list.

Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry

Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry
Title Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry PDF eBook
Author Thomas S. Szasz
Publisher
Pages 281
Release 1963
Genre Criminal liability
ISBN

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