Here is an article, published in the popular Opinion Journal, and available on-line. Although it does not directly say so, it basically lays the fault of the...
First some general comments. I think the topic of the Virginia Tech Massacre is difficult for at least the following reasons: 1. The problem is genuinely a...
I really apologize for over posting on this. I just noticed a reader's response page to Dr. Kellerman's article. Here is the link (cut, paste, delete white...
If ignorance were cornflakes, the author of this article would be General Mills. My family and I were just interviewed for the PBS show "American Experience"...
Surely the real issue here is not 'mental health' but the need to change America's gun laws. Matt Dioguardi <dio@...> wrote: Here is an article, published...
I assumed Sean's post to be saying that America's gun laws ought to change by being repealed. But maybe not? Virginia Tech being a state school makes things a...
I wrote 'change' not 'outlaw them'. The law can be changed to ensure that such people are not able to purchase arms in the way this guy was. ... Are you...
Sean Flemming wrote: "perhaps the school were unable to expel him for his documented bad behaviour" I agree with that insight - If any of the media or...
Thomas Szasz now has an excellent editorial on-line concerning the Virginia Tech Massacre: http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1257 ... Make sure to...
One of the most difficult aspects of Szasz's philosophy, for me, has been the idea that people have a right to end their own life if they choose to. However,...
Mon. 07/05/14 14:07 EDT post #10 From jokester to jailbird: Former Saturday Night Live star Tony Rosato has languished behind bars for two years with no trial ...
Hmmm. Capgras Syndrome - I don't take such a diagnosis seriously. However, it would be instructive to learn what crime Tony Rosato was charged with. But two...
Thomas Szasz is due to speak at Anthony Stadlen's Inner Circle Seminar in London on September 16th. For detais, see http://www.szasz.com/stadlensept162007.pdf ...
Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Psychiatrie-Erfahrener e.V. Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte Greifswalder Straße 4 10405 Berlin Fax: 030-782 8947 ...
René Talbot
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May 19, 2007 9:09 am
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I am planning to go to is seminar on 16 Sepember. For anyone interested, please note that the fee for the seminar is required by 1 June. Best wishes Rosemary ...
Well, isn't Dresden an interesting city for them to meet in. Germany is now a highly PC culture, I understand, with laws against any expression of Nazi ...
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/051707feldmar.cfm DPA Objects to Travel Law Punishing Past Drug Use Thursday, May 17, 2007 DPA's core principle that people...
you should have read the official agenda of this quasi-nazi conference. it doesn't deal only with "incarceration without trial and torture" -as you mention-...
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=56449 Mental illnesses growing in Japan TOKYO: More Japanese claimed and received compensation for work- related...
Comment: Suicide prevention is quickly becoming a big topic in Japan. It's almost impossible to argue against such measures because they sound so well...
... see here: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Szasz/myth.htm The Myth of Mental Illness <http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Szasz/myth.htm> by Thomas S. Szasz (1960) ...
René Talbot
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May 29, 2007 12:27 pm
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... I find that all of his books can be read without prior knowledge of his ideas. Nor do they have to be read in any particular order. The same ideas are...
As previously reported one week from now (on June 6 ) a conference of the World Psychiatric Association on the issue of coercive treatment is going to open in...
René Talbot
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May 31, 2007 12:04 pm
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I agree, however a good introduction in smaller bites might be one of his books of aphorisms: The Untamed Tongue, Words to the Wise, The Second Sin, and...
... The Myth of Mental Illness is probably the best place to start. Also very worth reading: Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences Fatal Freedom: The Ethics...
The Medicalization of Everyday Life Selected Essays See www.szasz.com, and http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2007/medicalization-everyday.html...
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