Review - Coercion as Cure
A Critical History of Psychiatry
by Thomas Szasz
Transaction, 2007
Review by Alice Gee, M.Sc.
Feb 12th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4078&cn=135
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At least as far back as 1982 Dr. Szasz has been advocating a psychiatric advance directive, or what he then termed the "psychiatric will." Not surprisingly his proposal has met resistance.
See:
The psychiatric will. A new mechanism for protecting persons against "psychosis" and psychiatry.
T.S. Szasz; Am Psychol. 1982 Jul;37(7):762-70.
Much more recently, Szasz addresses directives here:
Remember psychiatric patient's civil rights
http://www.szasz.com/remembering.html
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