Anti-psychiatrist, author of:
Dr Szasz holds that we have substituted
scientism for
morality and allowed a
category error to permeate our thinking about
mental illnesses and other '
diseases' such as
drug addiction,
alcoholism,
anorexia and
obesity.
He sees their current 'pathological' status as the inevitable result of a society that is unprepared to accept the hard work involved in personal responsibility.