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Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal pro...more

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The ethics of psychiatric therapy is the very negation of the ethics of political liberty. The former embraces absolute power, provided it is used to ...more

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The medical profession's classic prescription for coping with such predicaments, Primum non nocere (First, do no harm), sounds better than it is. In f...more

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The cruelty intrinsic to the workhouse system was excused by the need to discourage idleness, much as the malice intrinsic to the mental hospital syst...more

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The young and the old are defenseless against relatives who want to get rid of them by casting them in the role of mental patient,and against psychiat...more

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A vast amount of psychiatric effort has been, and continues to be, devoted to legal and quasi-legal activities. In my opinion, the only certain result...more

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The principal differences between law and science are as follows:1. In the administration of the law, facts are necessary to enable the umpire (jury, ...more