We Shut Down State Mental Hospitals. Some People Want to Bring Them Back.
Is "mental illness" a fraudulent concept for locking up social deviants? Or does forced treatment free the ill "from the Bastille of their psychosis?"
Is "mental illness" a fraudulent concept for locking up social deviants? Or does forced treatment free the ill "from the Bastille of their psychosis?"
LSD, psilocybin, and other hallucinogenics are gaining new acceptance as serious medicine. But what if you want to do them just for fun, asks Jacob Sullum.
5 great Reason interviews in one ebook
A remembrance of Thomas Szasz, courageous defender of freedom and responsibility
Thomas Szasz's courageous defense of freedom and responsibility
Fought against the therapeutic state and the war on drugs, among many other causes of freedom
The continuing relevance of Thomas Szasz's assault on psychiatric pretensions
Thomas Szasz on the medicalization of American life.
Those ingenuous arguments against involuntary hospitalization are flawed.
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