Abstract
In his response to Szasz' Secular Humanism and Scientific Psychiatry, the author considers the use of rhetorical devices in Szasz' work, Szasz' avoidance of acknowledging psychiatry's scientific distinctions, and Szaszian libertarianism versus liberalism.
Highlights
I have three general and short points to make in response to Szasz' essay
Thomas Szasz seems like an old friend to me, though we've never met, having only corresponded over e-mail about his work appearing in Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
Today American college kids both celebrate diversity and fear it, psychiatry is more biomedical than ever, and the American socially marginal may well be worse off than in any other time in my life. It is with a feeling of sadness that I comment on my "old friend's" work today. This current essay of Szasz' betrays little in the way of development of his ideas compared to his thought of thirty-five years ago, despite having a dramatically different social world and a different psychiatry
Summary
I have three general and short points to make in response to Szasz' essay. The first point concerns the craft of rhetoric or polemic, the second psychiatry's distinction in science, and the third concerns political morality. Thomas Szasz seems like an old friend to me, though we've never met, having only corresponded over e-mail about his work appearing in Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology.
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