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Psychiatry, Coercion as Cure, Thomas Szasz Book Review

April 4, 2012   ·   Video Book Reviews   ·     ·  

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Force as Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry

http://www.amazon.com/Force-Cure-Critical-History-Psychiatry/dp/0765803798

Psychiatry, Force as Cure, Thomas Szasz Book Review

Dr. Breeding reviews the book, “Force as Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry” by psychiatrist, Thomas S. Szasz.

“Nearly all books on the history of psychiatry have been written by people who wholeheartedly believe in the reality of `mental illness.’ At long last we have a history of psychiatry by the very man who nearly fifty years ago declared mental illness to be a myth. Stripping away centuries of self-serving propaganda written by psychiatry’s acolytes, Dr. Thomas Szasz gives us a radically new look at the history of the world’s most perilous political religions. From the eighteenth century’s `trade in insanity’ to the nineteenth century’s `insane asylums’ to the twentieth century’s `snake pits’ to the twenty-first century’s `outpatient commitment,’ Szasz gives us a radically different perspective on the foremost episodes in the history of psychiatry. After Force as Cure, we will never be able to look at psychiatry again as a legitimate claimant to the throne of medical science.”

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  1. JazyGirl26 on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    my drug is not my problem! Noooooooooooo!

  2. JazyGirl26 on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    uuhg…i only watch these phychetruth vids for nutrition with Natalie, this guys voice lost me pretty quick…

  3. prettyposeur on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    But is it ethical to leave these mentally ill people on the street if unable to get them help without use of force?
    Schizophrenia is so prevalent in the homeless population of Canada, but most people just attribute their scarce actions and economic disposition to the persons rather than the disorders.

    These people need help, and I’m not sure how they would
    receive help if not forced into it somehow.

    (a small off theme, but it’s a thought that popped in my head while watching this video)

  4. spencerdev91 on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    Of course the book only looks at the negative aspects of psychiatry

  5. onegodus on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    most of the homeless are abused or drug addicts. drugs make people mentally ill both officially authorized and illegal. most of those in the street are there because psychiatrist already place their hands on them and drugged and made them lose their minds. once the medical coverage won’t pay, they are left sick. you see it is all for profit. it is all about cash, the criminal doctors turn people into mentally ill and then treat them untill all their cash runs out. the point is to keep them sick and cash cows.

  6. citizenX9328g on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    I reckon he’s fantastic,his voice and delivery is completely perfect from where I’m sitting – if you see him in the thumbnail,maybe you should not click on it?

  7. TabooRealities on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    The ‘Terrible Gene’ theory is the foundation of some evil stuff.

    It is the prime thread of reasoning behind the Nazi holocaust… and many of the Nazi doctors and scientists wrote glowingly about U.S. eugenics programs based on the same thought. The Nazi’s just took it another step forward. But these thoughts are subdue VERY prevalent (informally) with powerful people in America, including ‘elite’ psychiatrists – and the eugenics programs also continue, but now in more concealed deceptive ways.

  8. TabooRealities on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    Perhaps if we administered Methylphenidate we can cultivate the attention span needed to listen to what is excellent for you?

    …if you are unwilling, electro-shock treatments can cure your uncooperativeness.

  9. onegodus on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    most psychiatrists are criminals and say people are mentally ill to profit from treating them. psychiatry was used forever by criminals in regime to drug people and hegemony them including politicians and other persons.

  10. taoid69 on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    far out

  11. TheLogicJunkie on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    You’re right; it’s pretty damn dull.

  12. TabooRealities on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    I don’t get it.

    Are you really operating at a low 80s IQ and making up for it by talking down to people because that tricks other low intelligent people who also miss the main points?

    Or is this all a scheme to justify willful ignorance so you don’t have to take responsibility?

    Or are you just a jerk?

    Or is there a touch else? Perhaps you are a 7 year ancient with an exceptional vocabulary?

  13. waterlogged22 on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    Read “The Yellow Wallpaper” (small report) by a woman who was treated by Weir Mitchell. She focuses on the “rest cure”

  14. sssskeptic on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    First of all, learn to pronounce non-maleficence. You’re a psychologist; you should probably know how to pronounce such an vital term in psychology even though you call it “goobly-gook”.
    Second of all, you claim you don’t believe in mental illnesses and yet you make reference to dementia and alzheimers coming into effect at an older age. They are mental diseases (dementia being a form of alzheimer’s).
    Any mental disorders continue living, or they do not. Make up your mind already.

  15. phloridababe on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    your talkin about a “science” frequently based on freud (wanted to screw his mommy, had a cocaine addiction and tortured children)

    ive studied psycology and its a crock, i dropped it and became a bartender bc i really wanted to help people. all you have to do is listen, thats all people want. and astrology shows you what mental/phys probs each sign endures. (like pisces is a depressed person)

    its all to make cash and make folks reckon they are nuts.
    blessings to all!

  16. LAMusicAwards on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    The title of the book is exactly what the Department of State will use to achieve consensus to go their corporate agendas.

    So simple to use on the timid pathetic and weak media addicts.

    Force is like taking candy from a baby when speaking in broadcast is a populace’s number one dread.

  17. sssskeptic on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    As you should know if you studied psychology, psychology has come a LONG way from Freud. Although I’d like to know when, where and how Freud apparently tortured children.
    You’re comparing psychology with astrology? I’m not even going to get into an argument about that. Although I will say that Pisces does NOT mean you are depressed. It means (according to astrology) you MAY be susceptible to depression, not that you have a depressive disorder.
    Psychology is about helping people, not cash.

  18. sssskeptic on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    FYI, my IQ is above average according to the WAIS-IV.

    Second of all, someone with an IQ of below 80 would generally not have the language skills that I have showed in my posts.

    What am I supposed to be taking responsibility for exactly?

    I’m a jerk? I was simply stating back what Dr. Breeding said in his video and challenging his points on mental illness (which doesn’t continue living according to him, yet he makes videos about it and is a psychologist..?).

    Also, what don’t you get exactly?

  19. antipodkayne on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    No, prokopton. Behaviour you described is a behaviour of a filthy perv, not mentally ill.

  20. prokopton on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    That’s a very enlightening comparison: Psychiatry is the new Religion as a form of social hegemony.

    Clinton slid a cigar up a vagina of an intern, Eliot Spitzer used the services of prostitutes while he was Governor of New York, Christie Brinkley’s husband had an affair with a teenager and spent $3,000/month on porn…If these people weren’t rich or influential, I’m sure they’d be labeled as mentally ill and place on drugs.

  21. FlowingGeisha on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    What a weird surname.

  22. beodorn on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    people always called me special .
    i am surelly weird .
    but really im just supper normal .

  23. antipodkayne on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    Well, I make. If someone has a serious, disabling brain disease like schizophrenia, and he/she hears voices, that is different thing than have a filth or gore fetish or, damn it, write a book about anal aliens – yes, Stephen King, I´m looking at you!

  24. shounenbat510 on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    Psychiatry makes no distinction between them.

  25. catgumart on December 6th, 2008 7:12 pm

    A person can say anything they want and choose to believe it out of convenience or if it benefits them to hold that position. Even if they know it is untrue they will cling to it untill you can bring some kind of tangible indubitable proof, and even then they might choose to deny out of pride. Particular things are subjective and their truth is relative to context or individual, then some truths can be contradictory and continue living at the same time, and not have any rules surrounding them. This is my opp.