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...
... Being over here in Europe I had never heard of Leary (Denis, not Dennis), but I looked him up through Google. He strikes me as offensive, obnoxious, and...
... Sorry, I meant to add that I see no similarily. Dr. Szasz's books are indeed often misrepresented, usually by people who haven't read them. Mira...
Mira wrote: I meant to add that I see no similarity (my correction). Really? The people who commented on Leary's book also didn't read it. Martin To:...
Mira wrote: Parents of autistic children are perfectly justified to be outraged. What objective test is there for autism? Who performs the diagnosis? Is it by...
... There are tests, such as of the reflexes. However, autism is mainly a personality trait. It doesn't require testing because it doesn't belong in medicine...
... That's a good suggestion. But a word of caution is probably in order. When entering the waters of political activism, it is wise to heed the advice of...
... LOL! I'm safe over here in Holland. Unless, of course, Obama has me extradited to the US. And he won't, because my health insurance would not be valid...
Thanks Mira, I always like your approach to my questions. http://windowslive.com/Explore/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_speed_122008 [Non-text portions...
Joseph Cummins, author of 'Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises in U.S. Presidential Campaigns,' says this is the #1 attack...
Real illness is in your body, mental illness is in your record. Sigmund Freud used psychiatric diagnosis as a weapon against two of his most famous protoges...
'Let us visualize a historical scene [in late 1939]. Dr. Max de Crinis a professor of psychiatry at Berlin University and director of the psychiatric...
http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/global/benedetto-saraceno Hagai Aviel/Chairperson Israeli Association Against Psychiatric Assault www.iaapa.org.il for...
Believe it or not, this is a cover story in 'The Atlantic'(Nov. 2008, "A Boy's Life"). Author Hanna Rosin discusses new treatments for transgender children: ...
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Sangchenyeshe wrote: "Hopefully, parents considering this procedure for their children will read Dr. Szasz first!" In these politically correct times, telling...
2 recent articles: "The Therapeutic State - The Burden of Responsibility" http://www.szasz.com/freeman25.html "Anti-Coercion Is Not Anti-Psychiatry" ...
I am wondering what members of this group think about the new psychedelic and MDMA therapies that are starting to be used now by by a few psychotherapists. As...
... A person should be free to take any drug he likes. But unless he feels better because the drug gets rid of a lesion that is to quote Thomas Szasz...
... Well Dr Stanislav Grof who is one of the foremost researchers in the filed of LSD psychotherapy would most likely answer that, unlike drugs which are...
I completely agree with you! Never should any drug be forced on another, either with the other knowing they are being coerced to take it, or unsuspectingly....
Dr. Szasz has stated that the so-called psychedelic drugs have only 2 effects of people. To wake them up or put them to sleep. Now these effects can be...
I very much respect Thomas Szasz, but that doesn't mean I will not challenge things he says if I feel they do not do justice to the subject in hand, and in...