Author | Thomas Szasz |
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Language | English |
Subject | Anti-psychiatry |
Publisher | Harper & Row |
Publication date | 1961 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
Pages | 337 (Secker & Warburg edition) 297 (Perennial Library edition) |
ISBN | 0-06-091151-4 |
OCLC | 747804544 |
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct is a 1961 book by the psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, in which the author criticizes psychiatry and argues against the concept of mental illness. It received much publicity, and has become a classic, well known as an argument that "mentally ill" is a label which psychiatrists have used against people "disabled by living" rather than truly having a disease.