SZASZ, Thomas S.
The Myth of Mental Illness.
New York: Paul B. Hoeber, Inc, 1961.
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First Edition of the Landmark Work The Myth of Mental Illness; Signed by Thomas Szasz
First edition of Thomas Szasz’s landmark and controversial critique of psychiatry, among the most influential and hotly debated books on mental illness of the twentieth century. Octavo, publisher’s original cloth. Boldly signed by Thomas S. Szasz on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
The Myth of Mental Illness, first published in 1961, is the most famous and provocative work of the psychiatrist Thomas Szasz (1920-2012), and one of the foundational texts of the anti-psychiatry movement. In it Szasz argues that mental illness is largely a metaphor, a label applied to problems in living rather than genuine diseases of the body, and challenges the medical and coercive authority of institutional psychiatry. Enormously influential and fiercely debated, the book reshaped discussions of psychiatric diagnosis, civil liberties, and the treatment of the mentally ill. A professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York, Szasz became one of the most prominent and outspoken critics of his own profession, defending individual responsibility and freedom against what he saw as the medicalization of ordinary human problems.
The Myth of Mental Illness.
$2,800.00
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