Hi;)))) With regard to Szasz, Laing and their critics, please could someone/anyone suggest some good books to study in relation to 'Is mental illness really...
... Please be careful naming Szasz and Laing in one breath. Their views have little in common. ... As this list is dedicated to the work of Thomas Szasz, I...
One thing that you can be sure of when you read Szasz is that you will be engage in critical thinking which is something completely lacking in psychiatry today...
From: Martin Kessler Anyone interested in seeing what Szasz really thinks about Laing, should read Szasz's book, Schizophrenia. His chapter on Laing is highly...
What do u think of the suggestion that The concept and image of self is a social-construction. Not feeling at ease or feeling dis-ease is the conscious...
Dear Martin, Have managed to track down two books through a second hand book dealer :- "The Manufacture of Madness"; London Routledge 1972 reprint; Hardback...
Those two Szasz books are very good especially The Manufacture of Madness. Martin ... _________________________________________________________________ Find a...
Here's the link to this recent story in Toronto's Globe & Mail (you'll have to copy and paste three times; sorry. I wanted this post to be easily readable. ...
Is that a "trick question"? I have a paperback copy. I checked the Library of Congress catalog but could not determine if the book in the LOC collection is...
Fri. 06/11/10 17:25 EST ... No, not at all. It's the only Szasz book I've never seen in hardcover, but that doesn't prove non-existence, so I thought I'd just...
A tv programme for all of us who are benefitting from Tim Berners-Lee's creation and how it has developed, including the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia which...
Firstly let me say "Happy New Year", may it be far better than last year. Late last year my computer crashed and i lost everything. Someone on this forum had...
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...
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...
Dear Martin, Am only half way through studying Szasz's "The Myth of Mental Illness". I get the impression that Szasz rejected the medical model of psychiatry,...
Hi Elaine, Thanks for the reply. I've read just about everything Szasz has written, I have all of his books. I think the best recommendation I could make is...
Dear Martin, Am only half way through studying Szasz's "The Myth of Mental Illness". I get the impression that Szasz rejected the medical model of psychiatry,...
Hi (((((((((((((((((Everyone))))))))))))))))))). I remember seeing on television a while back, a special which demonstrated that through medical/scientific...
Dear Martin, Rather than merely a mechanical concept of mind/brain, it could perhaps be said that the mind/brain has much more of a creative imput, wiring the...
... Brains are "wired" only metaphorically, and metaphors don't show up on brain scans. Scan machines are expensive toys, so physicians and researchers have to...
Of course, "brain wiring" is a metaphor. Memory for which there is a chapter in The Meaning of Mind (Chapter 3: Memory: Fabricating the Past and the Future). ...
Yes, Mira. Yes. Always a pleasure to see your comments in print. Most people when they talk about things psychiatric/neruological use the pseudo scientific...
Sigmund Freud: The doctor is back in On the 150th anniversary of Freud's birth, science is proving he was right by NORMAN DOIDGE MACLEANS | May 05, 2006 It's...
Does this idea mean that if a person thinks "bad thoughts", his brain is changed? Does this notion support the idea of "mental illness"? Do you believe that a...
... The only way to change a book containing good ideas into one containing bad ideas is to physically change the pattern of ink on its pages so that it ...
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