AuthorSzasz, Thomas Stephen, 1920-
TitleCruel compassion : psychiatric control of society's unwanted / Thomas Szasz
Imprint New York : Wiley, c1994
Descript xvii, 264 p. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

Storing the unwanted: Idigent ; Debtor ; Epileptic ; Child ; Homeless -- Political economy of psychiatry: Origin of psychiatry ; Economics and psychiatry ; Adult dependency ; New psychiatric deal ; Re-storing the mental patient ; Futility of psychiatric reform


SUBJECT

  1. Involuntary treatment -- Moral and ethical aspects
  2. Socially handicapped -- Mental health services
  3. Psychiatric ethics
  4. Paternalism -- Moral and ethical aspects
  5. Social control
  6. Antipsychiatry

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