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Author Szasz, Thomas

Title A Lexicon of Lunacy : Metaphoric Malady, Moral Responsibility and Psychiatry
Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (212 pages)
Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Language and Lunacy; 1 Shakespeare's Plays; 2 The Contemporary Scene; 3 Dictionaries of Deviance; DSM-III-R: The Official Roster of Mental Disorders; Synonyms for Mental Illness; Synonyms for Mental Hospital; 4 Dictionaries of Drunkenness; Benjamin Franklin's "The Drinkers Dictionary"; Edmund Wilson's "The Lexicon of Prohibition"; Contemporary Dictionary of Drunkenness; Part II Metaphoric Malady, Moral Responsibility, and Psychiatry; 5 The Religion Called "Psychiatry."
6 Mental Illness and Mental Incompetence7 The Illusion of Mental Patients' Rights; 8 The Illusion of Drug Abuse Treatment; 9 The Case Against Suicide Prevention; 10 The Psychiatric Will; 11 Ex Parte Psychiatry; Epilogue; Notes; Index
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Subject Antipsychiatry.
Mental health personnel -- Language
Mental illness -- Terminology
Psycholinguistics.
Psycholinguistics
psycholinguistics.
Antipsychiatry
Mental health personnel -- Language
Mental illness
Psycholinguistics
Genre/Form Terminology
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351535021
1351535021