Fifty Years After The Myth of Mental Illness
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In the 1950s, when I wrote The Myth of Mental Illness, the notion that it is the responsibility of the federal government to provide "health care" to the American people had not yet entered national consciousness. Most persons called mental patients were then considered "chronic" and incurable and were confined in state mental hospitals. The physicians who cared for them were employees of the state governments. Physicians in the private sector treated voluntary patients and were paid by their clients or the clients' families.
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The Myth of Mental Illness
Mental Illness. By Thomas S. Szasz. {Seeker & Warburg, ̂ s\t Over a century and a half ago Pinel removed the chains from the insane , Paris, John Conolly in England introduced more humane methods of treatment them, and since the days of Charcot, Kraepelin and Freud, mental illness has W' the subject of scientific enquiry like other illnesses. The author of The Myth of Mental Illness puts forward...
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