Hi Mira, As Dr. Szasz has just said in the Lew Rockwell interview, Democrats
and Republicans are the same when it comes to psychiatry's relation to the state
- both believe society's unwanted are mentally ill (schizophrenic) and should be
treated against their will because they are "incapable" of making decisions in
their own best interest.

Look at the outrage Dennis Leary got for his book on the subject of Autism -
and the outrage was from an out of context misrepresentation of what Leary had
written. Szasz's books have been similarly misinterpreted especially by people
with advanced degrees like Torrey. Also I think Obama would be more apt to
listen to E. Fuller Torrey (who has no problem with psychiatric coersion) than
to Thomas Szasz.

Martin





To: thomasszaszdiscussion@...: mirah@...: Sun, 30 Nov
2008 14:37:51 +0100Subject: Re: [ThomasSzaszDiscussion] Re: Reviews of The
Medicalization of Everyday Life and Coercion as Cure



sangchenyeshe wrote:> It will be interesting to see if the "African-American"
president-> elect, Obama, will uphold this more recent form of slavery.Your
quotation marks are apt. Maybe we should send him one of Szasz's books.Mira





_________________________________________________________________
Windows Live Hotmail now works up to 70% faster.
http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_faster_1120\
08

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]