All Posts Tagged With: "psychiatric drugs"
Treatments Without Diseases
In the psychiatrically correct view, mental illnesses are “just like bodily illnesses”; in fact, they are authoritatively declared to be “brain diseases.” The truth is that they are not. In medicine, there are diseases and, sometimes, treatments for them. In psychiatry, there are no diseases; nevertheless there are always treatments; that is, procedures declared to [...]
1Mar2008 | Thomas Szasz | 1 comment | ContinuedTaxing for Therapy
The Marxian credo, “From each according to his
abilities, to each according to his needs,” is the
moral foundation of the progressive tax policies
of modern capitalist societies. The psychiatric credo,
“From each producer according to his income, to each
psychiatric parasite according to his cunning,” amplifies
that creed and garbs it in the mantle of therapy.
Chemical Straitjackets for Children
In February, a group of physicians writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the use of “psychotropic medications prescribed for preschoolers increased dramatically between 1991 and 1995.” About twice as many children between the ages of 2 and 4 were given Ritalin, Prozac, and other so-called psychotropic drugs at the end [...]
1Jul2000 | Thomas Szasz | 0 comments | Continued-
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