The Telegraph carries an excellent obituary of this great man. Thomas Szasz was a Professor of Psychiatry who did not 'believe in' mental
illness. Many of his books are about what he described as "the myth of mental
illness" and about the great harm that is done by a belief in mental illness (or
the pretence of believing in it). I read most of his books in the 80's and I
found them compelling reading. I regard him as the foremost writer on
psychiatry and I have written about him before. (See HERE.) His books display an incisive
intelligence and a mordant wit, as he sought to protect the victims of
psychiatric labelling from the harm that such labels do in the hands of
medically-qualified knaves and fools supported by a misbegotten legal
system.
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