Liberation by Oppression

Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry

Author	Thomas Szasz
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Psychiatry
Published	2002
Media type	Print
ISBN	978-0-7658-0145-6
OCLC	471758504

Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry is a 2002 work on, and a critique of, psychiatry by Thomas Szasz.

Summary

Szasz compares the justification of psychiatry with the justification of slavery in the United States, stating that both necessarily denying the subject's right to personhood.

Reception

Reviews on this book were published by Psychiatric Services,^[1] The British Journal of Psychiatry,^[2]^[3] The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty,^[4] Ethical Human Sciences and Services,^[5] and The Independent Review.^[6]

References

↑ Padykula, Nora LaFond (April 2004). "Liberation by Oppression" (PDF). Psychiatric Services. 55 (4): 461. doi:10.1176/appi.ps.55.4.461. ISSN 1557-9700. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
↑ Persaud, Raj (2003). "Liberation by Oppression". The British Journal of Psychiatry. 182 (3): 273. doi:10.1192/bjp.182.3.273. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
↑ Schaler, J. A. (2003). "Slavery and psychiatry". The British Journal of Psychiatry. 183 (1): 77–78. doi:10.1192/bjp.183.1.77-a. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
↑ Doherty, Brian (April 2004). "Liberation by Oppression" (PDF). The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty. 54 (3): 44–46. ISSN 1559-1638.
↑ Cohen, David (2003). "Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry". Ethical Human Sciences and Services. 5 (1): 75–78. ISSN 1523-150X.
↑ Baker, Robert (Winter 2003). "Psychiatry's Gentleman Abolitionist" (PDF). The Independent Review. VII (3): 455–460. ISSN 1086-1653. Retrieved 12 February 2012.

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