Schaler, Jeffrey A.; Lothane, Henry Zvi; Vatz, Richard E.

Acknowledgments Introduction Henry Zvi Lothane Part I. Psychiatry and the World after Szasz 1. Reminiscences of Thomas Szasz and His Ideas Henry Zvi Lothane 2. In Dialogue with Thomas Szasz Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzion 3. What Thomas S. Szasz Has Wrought: A Mixed Assesment Richard E. Vatz Part II. Exorcizing a Myth 4. Szasz's Distinction between Physical and Mental Illness Joanna Moncrieff 5. What Follows from the Nonexistence of Mental Illness? David Ramsay Steele Part III. Through a Szaszian Lens 6. "False Truths" about Addiction: Thomas Szasz and Karl Polanyi Bruce K. Alexander 7. Szaszian Reflections on Cults Jeffrey A. Schaler 8. Schizophrenia, Then and Now: The Libation Bearers of Aeschylus Michael Scott Fontaine Part IV. Afterthoughts 9. The Seeds Tom Planted Jeffrey A. Schaler 10. Knoem Ron Leifer About the Authors Index

As it entered the 1960s, American institutional psychiatry was thriving, with a high percentage of medical students choosing the field. But after Thomas S. Szasz published his masterwork in 1961, The Myth of Mental Illness, the psychiatric world was thrown into chaos.