Title Coercion as cure : a critical history of psychiatry / Thomas Szasz

Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) Contents Introduction : force and freedom -- 1. Mental hospitalization : therapeutic imprisonment -- 2. Shock and commotion : terror therapy -- 3. Moral treatment : renaming coercion -- 4. Dauerschlaf : requiescant in pace -- 5. Iatrogenic epilepsy : and other electrical-therapeutic miracles -- 6. Lobotomy : cerebral spaying -- 7. Psychopharmacology I : psychiatric drugs -- 8. Psychopharmacology II : psychedelic drugs -- Conclusion : psychiatry -- a house united Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268) and index Notes Print version record Subject Psychiatry -- History Involuntary treatment -- History Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- History Human experimentation in medicine. Mental illness -- Treatment. Coercion Psychiatry -- history Commitment of Mentally Ill -- history Human Experimentation Mental Disorders -- therapy Psychiatric Somatic Therapies -- history MEDICAL -- Mental Health. MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General. PSYCHOLOGY -- Clinical Psychology. PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness. PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- General. Mental illness -- Treatment Human experimentation in medicine Involuntary treatment Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention Psychiatry Psychiatrie Zwangsbehandlung Psychiatrische Behandlung Freiwilligkeit Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781412808958 1412808952

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