ELAINE: the name of Szasz's book is "Schizophrenia The Sacred Symbol of
Psychiatry", Chapter 2: "Anti-Psychiatry: The Model of the Plundered Mind"
where Szasz disected Laing/Cooper's ideas showing the hypocrasy between what
Laing said and what Laing did. What is interesting is that many "educated"
commentators on Szasz group him with other anti-psychiatrists. Szasz is not
an anti-psychiatrist. Szasz has no problem with psychiatry as long it's
practiced as a free market relationship with no links to the State. That
means that psychiatrists can not imprison innocent people (called civil
commitment) and they can not transfer the guilty to a building called a
hospital.
Interestingly, Seth Farber's book: Madness, Heresy, and the Rumor of Angels
mentions several of Szasz's books in his recommended reading, but
Schizophrenia... is not because Farber liked Laing's ideas and naively
thought that people who read his book would ignore Szasz's book because it
wasn't mentioned.

Martin


>From: "ELAINE" <lizral@...>
>Reply-To: thomasszaszdiscussion@yahoogroups.com
>To: <thomasszaszdiscussion@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: [ThomasSzaszDiscussion] Another Book Mentioned
>Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:53:12 +1000
>
>Someone on this forum had also mentioned the name of a book, at least i
>think it was on this forum ;))) If i remember rightly the title was
>something like "Re-seating the Soul". Pleaseeeeeeeeee could someone repost
>details of the book that was mentioned.
>
>Also i would be grateful for suggestions as to books/papers that question
>whether mental illness is an illness or several illnesses in light of the
>works of R.D. Laing and Thomas Scasz.
>
>Any papers or articles u would be able to forward to me
>lizral@... or post on the forum would be very greatly
>appreciated.
>
>Kind Regards
>Elaine
>
>
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