Cruel Compassion

Author: Thomas Szasz
Publication Date: 1994, 1997
Paperback Ed.: Syracuse University Press, 1997
Hardcover Ed.: John Wiley & Sons, 1994
Pages: 264
ISBN: 0815605102 / 0-471-01012-X

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Acknowledgments

• Introduction

Part One: Storing The Unwanted

1. The Indigent

2. The Debtor

3. The Epileptic

4. The Child

5. The Homeless

Part Two: The Political Economy of Psychiatry

1. The Origin of Psychiatry

2. Economics and Psychiatry

3. Adult Dependency: Idleness as Ilness

4. The New Psychiatric Deal

5. Re-Storing the Mental Patient

6. The Futility of Psychiatric Reform

• Eplilogue

• References

• Bibliography

• Name Index

• Subject Index

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