Psychiatric fraud and force: A critique of E. Fuller Torrey

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 416-430

  Szasz, Thomas ^a,b  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

E. Fuller Torrey; Involuntary mental hospitalization; Myth of mental illness; Schizophrenia; Thomas Szasz

Indexed keywords

EID: 6344246222     PISSN: 00221678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022167804268133     Document Type: Review

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