Thomas Szasz – A New Vision for Mental Health

Mental Illness as Brain Disease: a Brief History Lesson

Author: Editorial 15th November 2023 0 Comments

Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz was (and is) sometimes wrongly accused of denying that mental illnesses exist. However, what he actually said is that many (not all) instances of mental illness are the consequence of attempts to confront and tackle the problem…
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a coherent system

Benjamin Rush, Carl Wernicke, coercive psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin, Hannah Arendt, history of psychiatry, Johann Christian Reil, John Hughlings Jackson, psychiatry, Roger Qvarsell, Theodor Meynert, Thomas Szasz, Wilhelm Griesinger

Some interesting quotations (Part 6)

Author: Editorial 24th June 2022 1 Comment

You might find some (or all) of the following quotes interesting: “… we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.” Desmond Tutu. “Such widespread phenomena…
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Key posts

Albert Einstein, Carl Jung, Desmond Tutu, Kenneth Kendler, Kirsten Shukla, quotations, quotes, Thomas Insel, Thomas Szasz, Viktor Frankl

Psycho Politics

Author: Editorial 14th April 2021 0 Comments

This book by Peter Sedgwick, was first published back in 1982. The publishers say: “A classic in the field of mental health, one of the few credible critiques of the anti-psychiatry movement which retains its significance today, Psycho Politics includes scholarly…
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a coherent system

Alastair Kemp, books, Erving Goffman, Helen Spandler, Peter Sedgwick, psychiatry, R.D Laing, Rob Dellar, Thomas Szasz

“It’s Not Just a Chemical Imbalance”: discussion of an opinion piece in the NYT written by Kelli Mari

Author: Editorial 8th August 2019 0 Comments

In this 40 minute podcast , Prof. Laurence Simon discusses an article – “It’s Not Just a Chemical Imbalance” – written by Kelli Maria Korducki in the New York Times. The podcast comes from his The Stories We Live By series, which is subtitled “Retelling our own life stories that are creative…
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a wellbeing society

audio, biochemical imbalance, Kelli Maria Korducki, language, Laurence Simon, medical model, New Approaches, podcast, terminology, Thomas Szasz

Mental Illness as Brain Disease: A Brief History Lesson

Author: Editorial 8th April 2019 0 Comments

This article , written by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz in 2006, is well worth reading in terms of the historical perspective that it provides, though some of his conclusions are starkly expressed in controversial terms. It begins: “A 1999 White House Conference…
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collaborative practice

asylum, history of psychiatry, psychiatry, Thomas Szasz