Bibliography

  • "The Myth of Mental Illness", Thomas Szasz, 1961.
  • "The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement", Thomas Szasz, 1970.
  • "Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry", Thomas Szasz, 1976.
  • "Anti-Freud - Karl Kraus' Criticisms of Psychiatry", Thomas Szasz, 1976.
  • "The Theology of Medicine", Thomas Szasz, 1977.
  • "The Myth of Psychotherapy", Thomas Szasz, 1978.
  • "Insanity - the Idea and its Consequences", Thomas Szasz, 1987.
  • "Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market", Thomas Szasz, 1992.
  • "The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality and Neuroscience", Thomas Szasz, 1996.
  • "Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide", Thomas Szasz, 1999.
  • "Faith in Freedom", Thomas Szasz, 2004
  • "The Medicalisation of Everyday Life", Essays by Thomas Szasz, 2007.
  • "Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry", Thomas Szasz, 2007.
  • "Psychiatry: the Science of Lies", Thomas Szasz, 2008.
  • "Antipsychiatry: Quackery Squared", Thomas Szasz, 2009.
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  • "Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good", James Davies, 2013.

A fundamental issue of human rights.


"THE MAGNA CARTA, THE PETITION OF RIGHTS, AND
THE BILL OF RIGHTS ARE DOCUMENTS WHICH ARE
HELD IN VENERATION BY DEMOCRATS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD."

NELSON MANDELA.

In the UK people of African origin have been massive victims of the crime against humanity
that is psychiatry.

The ideology of "mental illness" includes A CLEAR, FLAGRANT
AND TOTAL BREACH of an old English legal principle of
HABEAS CORPUS which has been a strong principle since
at least 1215 and Magna Carta.

Truly, truly wicked in our time.

This means "the body will be present" at a legal trial before detention by the state.

This was to prevent arbitrary detention by the state - and is a basis of human rights today.

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In the UK specifically "The Mental Health Act" of 1983/2008 is a serious crime against humanity in itself.

All personnel involved in enforcing it are obviously and objectively criminals.

They should be liable to arrest by UN forces - just as Nazis were after 1945 and the liberation of the Death Camps.

This act is an embarrassment to the UK and would not be acceptable elsewhere in Europe.

It is one of the things that makes me sympathise with the German Bishop who recently called our so-called "country" a "Third World" country.

The situation is worse in other countries - particularly in Africa.

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[Incidentally Magna Carta - did she die in vain :) etc.? - also guaranteed 
"freedom for the English [Catholic] Church" (from state and other interference). 
The Barons efforts were in vain here too - since about 300 years later the Church became the State and vice versa....... and so it remains today......]

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