The Medicalization of Everyday Life Selected Essays (Audible Audio Edition) Thomas Szasz Gary D MacFadden University Press Audiobooks Books
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Defining "medicalization" as the perception of nonmedical conditions as medical problems and nondiseases as diseases, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to exposing the dangers of "medicalizing" the conditions of some who simply refuse to conform to society's expectations.
Szasz argues that modern psychiatry's tireless ambition to explain the human condition has led to the treatment of life's difficulties and oddities as clinical illnesses rather than as humanity revealed in its fullness.
This collection of impassioned essays, published between 1973 and 2006, chronicles the author's long campaign against the orthodoxies of psychiatry. From "Medicine to Magic" to "Medicine as Social Control", the audiobook delves into the fascinating history of medicalization, including "The Discovery of Drug Addiction", "Persecutions for Witchcraft and Drugcraft", and "Food Abuse and Foodaholism".
In a society that has little tolerance for those who live outside its rules, Dr. Szasz's writings are as relevant today as ever.
The Medicalization of Everyday Life Selected Essays (Audible Audio Edition) Thomas Szasz Gary D MacFadden University Press Audiobooks Books
If this doesn't challenge a few deeply held beliefs you are either comatose or Dr. Szasz yourself. Boy, this one just wrestles everything you think about mental health and forces you to contemplate just what you know vs what you've been told, and accept because the person telling you had a pile of degrees and a white jacket. I include 3 quotes here to give you a flavor:The old quacks peddled fake cures to treat real diseases. The new quacks peddle fake diseases to justify chemical pacification and medical coercion. The old quacks were politically harmless: they could harm individuals only with those individuals' consent. The new quacks are a serious threat to individual liberty and personal responsibility: they are agents of the therapeutic state who can and do harm individuals both with and without those individuals' consent. Theocracy is the alliance of religion with the state. Pharmacracy is the alliance of medicine with the state
Today virtually any unwanted behavior, from shopaholism and kleptomania to sexaholism and pedophilia, may be defined as a disease whose diagnosis and treatment belong in the province of the medical system. Disease-making thus has become similar to lawmaking. Politicians, responsive to tradition and popular opinion, can define any act, from teaching slaves to read to the cold-blooded murder of a bank guard, as a crime whose control belongs in the province of the criminal justice system.
Formerly, the people rushed to embrace totalitarian states. Now they rush to embrace the therapeutic state. By the time they discover the therapeutic state is about tyranny, not therapy, it will be too late.
Dr. Szasz is unfortunately fighting a losing battle as we trade freedom for comfort, eagerly handing over our children, our health, and our choices to experts who know more than we do. Well, do they? Who says so? They do, over and over and over. And we have allowed ourselves to stop believing things we know, as those white-coated experts have assured us we do not know. Only they do. And they will act in our best interests. Read his account of his trial testimony. It is wildly funny, brilliantly effective, and scathingly brutal. Psychiatry is used to dispose of unwanted people. What will prevent you from becoming such a person?
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The Medicalization of Everyday Life Selected Essays (Audible Audio Edition) Thomas Szasz Gary D MacFadden University Press Audiobooks Books Reviews
This books certainly explains the health care system and why so many people think that they need a prescription for every issue, mental or physical.
If you really believe that the professionals and doctors who work for the drug companies are objective scientists and have your interests at heart then do not read this book.
If you take prescription medications, especially any related to "mental health," you owe it to yourself to read this book and learn the truth about modern "medicine," and the scam that keeps you taking pills instead of finding true health and healing.
The career of Thomas Szasz spans decades of teaching, research and activism against the coercive structures of psychiatry, and its alliance with the state, its interference in criminal law, and its relation with chemical laboratories and insurers ("Big Pharma" in less formal parlance). In this selection of essays spanning from the 1970s to the 2000s, we get a quick overview of all the main topics that Szasz takes on in his many books. Since these were all originally published as journal essays, they are short, quick paced to read, and very much to the point. It's hard to summarize such a variety in few words; but we can separate the main themes present the scientific status, or more appropriately, lack of it, of mental illness; notes on the dirty history of "hospitalization" as incarceration; the constant growth in regulation of all types of drugs; the centrality of a right to death to a full realization of personal autonomy, and the importance of its usurpation by others; the consequences of psychiatry's abolition of personal responsibility, in court, out of court, and for involuntary incarceration labelled as "hospitalization"; and finally, but centrally all throughout the different essays, the creation of medical metaphors to justify these coercive interventions and the transformation of medicine, or something claiming to be medicine, into a part of the state apparatus. None of these themes will be alien to a Szasz reader. Any of these should be an eye opener to those not familiar with his career. In this compilation, they are all accessible in a shorter format, and together in a way that clarifies and strengthens the connection to each other. A roaring voice in the desert for personal autonomy and responsibility, for self-government and the liberty to exercise it, vis-à-vis both the state and its new agents of coercion and conformity.
If this doesn't challenge a few deeply held beliefs you are either comatose or Dr. Szasz yourself. Boy, this one just wrestles everything you think about mental health and forces you to contemplate just what you know vs what you've been told, and accept because the person telling you had a pile of degrees and a white jacket. I include 3 quotes here to give you a flavor
The old quacks peddled fake cures to treat real diseases. The new quacks peddle fake diseases to justify chemical pacification and medical coercion. The old quacks were politically harmless they could harm individuals only with those individuals' consent. The new quacks are a serious threat to individual liberty and personal responsibility they are agents of the therapeutic state who can and do harm individuals both with and without those individuals' consent. Theocracy is the alliance of religion with the state. Pharmacracy is the alliance of medicine with the state
Today virtually any unwanted behavior, from shopaholism and kleptomania to sexaholism and pedophilia, may be defined as a disease whose diagnosis and treatment belong in the province of the medical system. Disease-making thus has become similar to lawmaking. Politicians, responsive to tradition and popular opinion, can define any act, from teaching slaves to read to the cold-blooded murder of a bank guard, as a crime whose control belongs in the province of the criminal justice system.
Formerly, the people rushed to embrace totalitarian states. Now they rush to embrace the therapeutic state. By the time they discover the therapeutic state is about tyranny, not therapy, it will be too late.
Dr. Szasz is unfortunately fighting a losing battle as we trade freedom for comfort, eagerly handing over our children, our health, and our choices to experts who know more than we do. Well, do they? Who says so? They do, over and over and over. And we have allowed ourselves to stop believing things we know, as those white-coated experts have assured us we do not know. Only they do. And they will act in our best interests. Read his account of his trial testimony. It is wildly funny, brilliantly effective, and scathingly brutal. Psychiatry is used to dispose of unwanted people. What will prevent you from becoming such a person?
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