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Psychiatry : the science of lies

Thomas Stephen Szasz (Author)
Portrays the integral role of deception in the history and practice of psychiatry. This work argues that the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness stands in the same relationship to the diagnosis and treatment of bodily illness that the forgery of a painting does to the original masterpiece.
Print Book, English, 2008
Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, 2008
XIII, 148 str. ; 24 cm.
9780815609100, 0815609108
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