Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing as Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression (Revised) - Paperback

by Thomas Szasz (Author)

This intriguing book undercuts everything you thought you knew about psychotherapy.

"Szasz extends the conviction he first expressed in The Myth of Mental Illness that the concept of mental illness is both erroneous and immoral; ergo, the treatment thereof must also be immoral. Moreover, since there is no such thing as mental illness there cannot possibly be such a thing as psychotherapy."--British Journal of Psychiatry

Author Biography

Thomas Szasz is the author of over four-hundred articles and nineteen books; among the most recent are The Therapeutic State: Psychiatry in the Mirror of Current Events and Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences. He was both a practicing psychiatrist and a professor of psychiatry at the Health Science Center, State University of New York, in Syracuse.