Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted Book

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Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted
Written by author Thomas Stephen Szasz
Published by Syracuse University Press, February 1998
Cruel Compassion is the capstone of Thomas Szasz's critique of psychiatric practices. Reexamining psychiatric interventions from a cultural-historical and political-economic perspective, Szasz demonstrates that the main problem that faces mental health po

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Introduction 1
Pt. 1 Storing the Unwanted 13
1 The Indigent 15
2 The Debtor 27
3 The Epileptic 43
4 The Child 63
5 The Homeless 86
Pt. 2 The Political Economy of Psychiatry 101
6 The Origin of Psychiatry 103
7 Economics and Psychiatry 123
8 Adult Dependency: Idleness as Illness 140
9 The New Psychiatric Deal 150
10 Re-Storing the Mental Patient 169
11 The Futility of Psychiatric Reform 187
Epilogue 201
References 207
Bibliography 235
Name Index 253
Subject Index 257

Title: Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted

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Item Number: 9780815605102

Publication Date: February 1998

Product Description: Full Name: Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted; Short Name:Cruel Compassion

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Date Last Edited: August 25, 2020, Edited By: Ross

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reviewed Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted on January 07, 2010

Cruel Compassion

Immediately disliked. Apparently it was meant for a classroom setting. A classroom of less than brilliant students at that.

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