Coercion as cure : a critical history of psychiatry / Thomas Szasz.
Pubblicazione:
New Brunswick : Transaction, c2007.
Descrizione fisica:
XV, 278 p. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. Introduction: Force and freedom. 1. Mental hospitalization: therapeutic imprisonment 2. Shock and commotion: terror therapy 3. Moral treatment: renaming coercion 4. Dauerschlaf: requiescant in pace 5. Iatrogenic epilepsy: and other electrical therapeutic miracles 6. Lobotomy: cerebral spaying 7. Psychopharmocology I: psychiatric drugs 8. Psychopharmocology II: psychedelic drugs. Conclusion: Psychiatry, a house united. Notes. Bibliography. Acknowledgments. Index
