In the Netherlands, a 27-yr-old has sued his medical insurer for refusing to fund his addiction treatment in England. The insurer refuses to cover the...
Oh! What a tangled web we weave once we practice to deceive! In this case the deception is the idea that bad habits are diseases. Unfortunately, since...
Hi Folks, A new book about Thomas Szasz has appeared. Actually, it's an old book, from 1984, but it has recently been published in English on the Internet,...
Mira, I cannot get to the source that you cite. Please check your citation. Charles Mira <mirah@...> wrote: Hi Folks, A new book about Thomas Szasz has...
How about making war on spammers , then giving them some of the same stuff we got in lock up . its quite legal now, I hear they are drugging marines with...
Sorry group , but the spam I recieved from this site caused me to respond in kind. I will keep my posts to the subject of the group from now on. I will pose a...
Did Prof Szasz, keep all his patients out of lock up ? What were the % of Szasz patients, who could not be assisted by his therapy? If any? Where did Prof...
... I cannot speak for Prof Szasz, but as he had a private practice this must mean that he received only patients who sought him out because they wanted his...
were you at the russell tribunal? too bad you didn't contact us while you're there. i didn't heard szass questions someone about involuntary drugging, but as ...
... patients who sought him out because they wanted his services and were ... did that himself or not. All this seems to indicate a well known but often...
... I don't understand your question. Although "hypocrisy" is not necessarily a violation of my personal value system, Dr. Szasz is about the last person in...
Why is it hypocritical to treat those who pay for your services better than those who demand them as an entitlement? [Non-text portions of this message have...
... better than ... It isn't, but the situation of psychiatry is somewhat different from that. Psychiatry claims to be a science, therefore unbending in its...
In a message dated 12/13/2005 6:03:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, etaonsh@... writes: It isn't, but the situation of psychiatry is somewhat different from ...
No Hagai, I wasn't at the tribunal. I heard it on the recording. The wittiness was Nordic , possibly an Icelander. He spoke fair English also. This question...
Hagai, I've listened to the main body of the Russell tribunal wittiness's , are there any more, I might have heard two years ago, edited out now ? I'm not...
... from ... verdicts, ... from ... I'm afraid that's not good enough, meat. Psychiatry clearly claims to be a science, and therefore the influence of money on...
In a message dated 12/14/2005 7:44:59 AM Eastern Standard Time, etaonsh@... writes: I'm afraid that's not good enough, meat. Psychiatry clearly claims to...
... I'm not sure how Dr. Szasz envisions psychiatry in a free market. If mental illness doesn't exist, then psychiatry is a hoax. How can it be practiced? Mira...
In a message dated 12/14/2005 3:11:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, mirah@... writes: I'm not sure how Dr. Szasz envisions psychiatry in a free market. If ...
In a message dated 12/14/2005 3:30:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, mirah@... writes: That's not medicine. Psychiatry by definition is a branch of medicine. ...
In a message dated 12/14/2005 3:46:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, mirah@... writes: Plumbing is also neither medicine nor a science. If I practice it, could I...
... The suffix -ology means study. So geology is the study of the earth, etymology the study of words, biology the study of living things, and psychology the...
... to ... the 'Achilles ... science in ... True, but personally I've never accepted Szasz's rather vacuous basic premise that mental illness is a 'myth' - it...
... behavior ... ? Why? Who says? I have behavioral problems right now - extreme untidiness, diet and exercise regime (or lack thereof). I could use...
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