Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry
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Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry (ISBN 978-0-7658-0145-6) is a 2002 work on, and a critique of, psychiatry
by Thomas Stephen Szasz. The text compares the justification of psychiatry
with the justification of slavery
in the United States
– both necessarily denying the subject's right to personhood.
Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...
by Thomas Stephen Szasz. The text compares the justification of psychiatry
Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...
with the justification of slavery
Slavery
Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand compensation...
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
– both necessarily denying the subject's right to personhood.