Dear Readers, the day before yesterday we broadcasted on our radio program an telephon interview with Thomas Szasz. You can download the audio file here (with...
Part 2 of "Double Bind", story 5 from series 6 of "Waking the Dead" starring Trevor Neve. BBC1 tv Monday, 28 January 9-10pm The team investigates a murder at a...
Psychiatrists say that mentally ill people should be coerced because they may harm themselves or others. http://www.fff.org/freedom/0490c.asp "The demand for,...
I would like to start a detailed list of all recorded (audio and visual) interviews of Thomas Szasz for historical purposes. I have only heard a few of his...
Writing for the Guardian newspaper on Saturday, Steven Poole reviewed the following book: Junk Medicine: Doctors, Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy, by...
Thomas Szasz's Inner Circle Seminar Sunday, September 16th 2007 Located in the delightful Regent's College, existential- phenomenological psychotherapist...
Thanks for your report on the seminar with Thomas Szasz in London on Sunday. Did you ask a question yourself? There were, I believe, 50 or so people present...
Was anyone from this list at the Seminar on Sunday? I went but there were no badges for delegates and I didn't have time to look at the list of attendees (52 I...
We invite you to look at the results of the ZWANG contest displayed here: http://www.iaapa.de/contest.html René Talbot (Secreatry of IAAPA www.iaapa.ch ) ... ...
The Medicalization of Everyday Life Selected Essays See www.szasz.com, and http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2007/medicalization-everyday.html...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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,...
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...
Following the english translation of a press statement published today. René Talbot ... Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Psychiatrie-Erfahrener e.V. Haus der...
Dear all, Professor Szasz has two upcoming speaking engagements, according to his website (http://szasz.com/speaking.html) San Francisco, June 13, 2007 Rollo...
It had been said :- It's the usual confusion between process and mechanism. The brain chemicals do not cause anything, any more than the movements of the car's...
Cannot remember who suggested i read two articles, one being "Knowing What Ain't So" - Thomas Szasz. However, i thank u very sincerely. As to "As a human...
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,...
In a message dated 2/11/2007 3:55:41 P.M. Central Standard Time, ozarkheretic@... writes: Call the prosecuting attorney's office and ask the spokesman...
I'm a 3rd year university student doing a paper on Thomas Szasz. The subject of the essay is how Szasz is a libertarian, which is often pegged as a very right...
As one supposed libertarian used to say "check your premises." First mistaken premise: Libertarianism is a right-wing stance. Second mistaken premise:...
If it is OK to imprison someone for questioning and mocking the "official" history of the Holocaust, why isn't it OK to imprison someone for being "mentally...
Suppose someone wrote a history in which he said that General Robert E. Lee was not aware at the beginning of the Civil War that many African people were owned...