States of Mind — Season 1, Episode 15: Thomas Szasz
Documentary • 30 min • 1 season, 15 episodes
Episode synopsis
Despite remarkable advances in medical science over the past century, there is still no clear medical understanding of the causes of most forms of insanity. Dr Thomas Szasz, author of The Manufacture of Madness and The Myth of Mental Illness, argues that madness has been misrepresented as a disease, and that this has enabled psychiatrists to tyrannise and imprison the mad in the name of philanthropy or therapy.
About States of Mind
Series of programmes about psychology, in which Jonathan Miller talks to eminent psychologists about their theories and beliefs.