The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct (Revised Edition)

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The landmark book that argued that psychiatry consistently expands its definition of mental illness to impose its authority over moral and cultural conflict. New York Times Controversial and influential . . . an iconoclastic work. Joyce Carol Oates New York Times Book Review A 50th Anniversary Edition of Thomas Szaszs famous influential critique of the field of psychiatry with a new preface on the age of Prozac Ritalin and the rise of designer drugs.