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
Title | Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Stephen Szasz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Criminal liability |
ISBN | 9780020747703 |
Faith in Freedom
Title | Faith in Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Szasz |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 393 |
Release | 2017-07-12 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1351520741 |
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
Title | Minding Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Slobogin |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780674022041 |
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
Title | Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas S. Szasz |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Criminal liability |
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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 |
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
Title | Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas S. Szasz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Criminal liability |
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