The Untamed Tongue

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THE
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Warning: The Guardians-general of the American Psychiatric Association and of the National Alliance for the Mentally III have determined that this book may he hazardous to your mental health!
This is a new collection of biting aphorisms and provocative meditations by the master iconoclast of our age. Of The Untamed Tongue Szasz says: "I have tried, in the tradition of Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, to present a satirical over\áew of the current state of the 'human comedy'—^with special emphasis on psychiatry, therapy, and related follies."
The entries in this heretical 'dictionary' are arranged under such headings as ethics, liberty, love, money, politics, psychiatry, psychotherapy, punishment, religion, sex, social relations, and suicide. They all reveal Szasz at his courageous and outrageous best, as he takes on the government's futile and murderous 'war on drugs', exposes the hypocrisies of psychotherapy and the atrocities of psychiatry, and defends... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE
UNTAMED
lonme
Warning: The Guardians-general of the American Psychiatric Association and of the National Alliance for the Mentally III have determined that this book may he hazardous to your mental health!
This is a new collection of biting aphorisms and provocative meditations by the master iconoclast of our age. Of The Untamed Tongue Szasz says: "I have tried, in the tradition of Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, to present a satirical over\áew of the current state of the 'human comedy'—^with special emphasis on psychiatry, therapy, and related follies."
The entries in this heretical 'dictionary' are arranged under such headings as ethics, liberty, love, money, politics, psychiatry, psychotherapy, punishment, religion, sex, social relations, and suicide. They all reveal Szasz at his courageous and outrageous best, as he takes on the government's futile and murderous 'war on drugs', exposes the hypocrisies of psychotherapy and the atrocities of psychiatry, and defends the individual's most sacred right—the right to suicide.
"Against the current of a culture that would deny it, Szasz restores the human world of purpose and choice, of right and xurong. "
—Ralph Raico
Born in Budapest in 1920, Thomas Szasz moved to the U.S. in 1938. He gained his M.D. in 1944, and has received many honors for his work in psychiatiy. In 1961 he became a figure of national controversy with his second book, The Myth of Mental Illness. His 20 books include Ceremonial Chemisliy: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers, Schizo/ihrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry, Sex by Prescrijdion, and Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences. Vissza