All Posts Tagged With: "psychiatric destruction"
The 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 | Continued-
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