... Charles Howard initially suggested that if a pregnant woman were judged criminally negligent with regard to the well-being of her unborn child, the result...
Tracy, I don't believe I made the statement that you claim I made. Your remarks indicate to me that you do not approve of voluntary abortion. Do you think a...
Basically it's a low-cost, voluntary cooperative living arrangement for adults who have similar legitimate concerns about their civil liberties. For example...
Dear friends, Bad news from Britain: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4260934.stm The planned "mental health" bill looks very much like a second outpatient...
René Talbot
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Sep 20, 2005 11:00 am
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In a message dated 9/20/2005 7:00:41 AM Eastern Standard Time, r.talbot@... writes: We wish our English friends all the good luck we were also blessed...
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Sep 20, 2005 3:52 pm
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Now returning to the news, the topic of Mr. Hinckley's confinement is something Dr. Szasz has written about on occasion. Here is a link, and the first few...
Dear Tom, ... A new government might override all the previous decisions and ignore the irreconcilableness of an outpatient commitment law with the German ...
René Talbot
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Sep 21, 2005 8:50 am
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Isn't if funny when the quacks call behavior normal what they really mean is that the behavior is morally acceptable. If Hinckley was actually tried as a...
The representative of the Russian sub-division of IAAPA in Barrnaul (Siberia) is Igor Girich. He has created a website with picture galleries of psychiatric...
René Talbot
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Sep 28, 2005 3:37 pm
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Thomas Szasz has some upcoming speaking engagements. Please refer to http://www.szasz.com/speaking.html for more details....
... I do see now that I cannot simply preclude "regulation of reproduction" in the manner I previously suggested. As for this example, however, I don't think...
Good points, Tracy. Notice how we are debating the meaning and connotation of words. What does it mean to "regulate"? If the government passed a law that...
... This does not seem an important aspect of our discussion, to me. ... Yeah, it would. ... So, did my answer confound your expectations, or not? ;) ... In...
A Turkish man named Ismail Dogan says that God (and a bird and a dog) told him to kill English people. So naturally he went around stabbing people with a...
There appears to be a new trend starting in publishing when it comes to books dealing with mental health, psychiatry, or self-help. It may be more correct to...
... This does not seem an important aspect of our discussion, to me. What does not seem to be an important aspect of our discussion? Are we only going to...
From: Martin Kessler Well done, Rob. I might add that almost none of the so-called psychiatric critics refer to Szasz. That's because Szasz said it first and...
... Probably not, because I'm too much of a coward. Like Yonah, I would try to run away. But if He told me to do something I feel capable of, I would. ... It...
... snip ... There is nothing new about this. Such books have been being published for years. You are right that Dr. Szasz was the first. He was also the best...
Dear Charles Howard, I am surprised at your reply. Should I interpret the fact that you chose to pay attention to only one sentence as a strong disagreement ...
... I'm not entirely sure how we got to man on a knife rampage to alcohol, but okay I'll bite. Jeffrey Schaler wrote an excelent book called 'Addiction is a...
T.B. Would you mind clarifying your remark that "... attention should be focused on propositions and problems, not definitions and meanings"? Maybe you could...
International Association Against Psychiatric Assault Spechtweg ,14125 Riehen, Switzerland, www.iaapa.ch Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Psychiatrie-Erfahrener e.V....
René Talbot
r.talbot@...
Oct 6, 2005 8:51 am
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... I read about this experiment in Stanton Peele's book (see: http://www.metzelf.info/Book%20Reviews/Diseasing.html) What the researchers set out to...
... Speaking only for myself, I have not participated in this discussion because I have nothing to say about the matter other than that any interference at all...
... The disease theory says that a form of complex behaviour, to whit, drinking more alcohol, is due to the chemical effects of alcohol, but it is not. I think...
... Alcohol can affect a person's ability to think. He can also interpret it as causing certain thoughts, but he can change that interpretation. For example,...
Of course, it matters why a person kills another person. Was the killing an act of self-defense? The facts are very important. There are degrees of murder....
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