Thomas Szasz
Psychiatrist (1920 to 2012) whose The Myth of Mental Illness (1961) argued that mental illness is a metaphor for problems in living, not a disease, and opposed involuntary psychiatry.
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Their wordsMental illness is a myth.
↗The Myth of Mental Illness (Hoeber-Harper, 1961)archive.org All 2 from this book
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Their wordsPsychiatrists are not concerned with mental illnesses and their treatments.
↗The Myth of Mental Illness (Hoeber-Harper, 1961)archive.org All 2 from this book