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Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for InsanityThe idea of insanity pervades every aspect of our daily lives. Thomas Szasz contends that the term actually functions as a euphemism for problems about living, i.e., as an excuse for crime and misbehavior, as a stigma for invalidating adversaries. In actuality, Szasz claims, insanity functions in our society as a metaphor, a legal fiction.In Insanity, Dr. Szasz presents a systematic articulation o...
Full description- Publisher: Syracuse University Press
- Published: 31 March 1997
- Format: Paperback 436 pages
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- Categories: Cultural Studies | Anthropology | Social, Group Or Collective Psychology | Abnormal Psychology | Clinical Psychology
- ISBN 13: 9780815604600 ISBN 10: 0815604602
- Sales rank: 575,511
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Full description for Insanity
The idea of insanity pervades every aspect of our daily lives. Thomas Szasz contends that the term actually functions as a euphemism for problems about living, i.e., as an excuse for crime and misbehavior, as a stigma for invalidating adversaries. In actuality, Szasz claims, insanity functions in our society as a metaphor, a legal fiction.In Insanity, Dr. Szasz presents a systematic articulation of the precise character and practical consequences of the idea of mental illness. He shows the way to a better understanding of this almost universally misunderstood condition by first establishing the scientific criteria and linguistic conventions we use for deciding what constitutes bodily disease, and then demonstrating the metaphorical character of the "diseases" that affect the mind rather than the brain. This book was originally published in 1987 by John Wiley.
