The ethical standards of psychiatric practice mandate that psychiatrists coerce certain innocent persons. Abstaining from such "intervention" is considered malpractice--dereliction of the psychiatrists "duty to protect." This duty reflects the fact that psychiatry is an arm of the coercive apparatus of the state, converting it to an institution Thomas Sas calls "psychiatric slavery." How should friends of freedom--especially libertarians--deal with the conflict between elementary libertarian principles and prevailing psychiatric practices? In Faith in Freedom: Libertarian Principles and Psychiatric Practices, Sas addresses this question.

Preface

Introduction: Liberty from Psychiatry

I. Principles: Why Libertarianism and Psychiatry are Incompatible

1. Responsibility: The Moral Foundation of Liberty

2. The Libertarian Credo and the Ideology of Psychiatry

3. Economics and Psychiatry: Twin Scientisms

4. Economocracy and Pharmacracy: Twin Systems of Social Control

II. Profiles: Where Some Famous Libertarians Went Wrong

A. Civil Libertarians

5. John Stuart Mill

6. Bertrand Russell

7. The American Civil Liberties Union

B. Objectivist Libertarians

8. Ayn Rand

9. Nathaniel Branden

C. Libertarians

10. Ludwig von Mises

11. Friedrich von Hayek

12. Murray N. Rothbard

13. Robert Nozick

14. Julian Simon

15. Deirdre N. McCloskey

Finale

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index