Features & Benefits
- Thomas Szasz's classic book revolutionized thinking about the nature of the psychiatric profession
- By diagnosing unwanted behavior as mental illness, psychiatrists absolve individuals of responsibility
- He also critiques Freudian psychology as a pseudoscience
- He warns against the dangerous overreach of psychiatry into all aspects of modern life
- He is a professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York
- He has taught psychiatry since 1956