"Furthermore, just as it is possible for a person to define himself as sick without having a bodily illness, so it is also possible for a physician to define as 'sick' a person who feels perfectly well and wants no medical help, and then act as if he were a therapist trying to cure his 'patient's' disease. How should we react to such a physician? Should we treat him as if he were a malevolent meddler or a benevolent healer? Today, it is considered quite unscientific and uncivilized to adopt the former posture, everyone -- except the victim, and sometimes even he, himself -- regarding such a physician as obviously a therapist, that is, a psychiatric therapist. I believe this is a serious error. I hold that psychiatric interventions are directed at moral, not medical, problems; in other words, that psychiatric help sought by the client stands in the same relation to psychiatric intervention imposed on him as religious beliefs voluntarily professed stand to such beliefs imposed by force."
Hmm....
This book also comes with a bookmark which is also a previous owner of the book's critique on it, as seen in the 5th item image.
The Myth of Mental Illness - Thomas S Szasz - Perenial Library - Harper & Row Publishers
This book is in good condition, with only minimal signs of age. This book would be perfect, but a previous owner has underlined many passages within the book. Copyright and printed in 1974. Approximately 7" by 4", 297 pages long.
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