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By Thomas Szasz. 278 pp. New Brunswick, NJ, Transaction, 2007. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-7658-0379-5.

Thomas Szasz, professor of psychiatry emeritus at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, has written more than 30 books that have made his reputation as a gadfly of psychiatry. The first, The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct (first published in 1961), was the most influential. Szasz wrote it during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, and in it he questioned whether schizophrenia is a valid medical diagnosis and proposed instead that schizophrenia is society's mislabeling of alternative lifestyles and beliefs as deviant. Civil rights movements have held up the treatment . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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