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The Shame of Medicine: Alan Turing Redux
In my May 2009 column I recounted the tragic story of the medical-legal persecution of the famed British mathematician and World War II code breaker Alan Turing. In June, John Graham-Cumming, a British computer programmer, created a petition on the “No. 10 Downing Street” website asking for a government apology for Turing’s mistreatment. On September [...]
24Feb2010 | Thomas Szasz | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Shame of Medicine: The Case of Alan Turing
The posthumous diagnosis of suicide as mental illness is the ritual degradation ceremony of our therapeutic age, much as the posthumous burning of the heretic’s corpse was the ritual degradation ceremony of an earlier theological age.
24Apr2009 | Thomas Szasz | 17 comments | ContinuedRemembering Masturbatory Insanity
“Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation.” —Charles Mackay Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds The contemporary mental health movement—epitomized by the dogmatic belief that “mental illness [...]
1May2000 | Thomas Szasz | 1 comment | Continued-
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