Liberation by Oppression

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Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry
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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]

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