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Language English Media type Print Originally published 2002 Country United States of America | 5/5 Goodreads Subject Psychiatry ISBN 978-0-7658-0145-6 OCLC 471758504 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry is a 2002 work on, and a critique of, psychiatry by Thomas Szasz.
Contents
Summary
Szasz compares the justification of psychiatry with the justification of slavery in the United States, stating that both necessarily denying the subject's right to personhood.
Reception
Reviews on this book were published by Psychiatric Services, The British Journal of Psychiatry, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Ethical Human Sciences and Services, and The Independent Review.
References
Liberation by Oppression Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA