by Tristano Ajmone
Ron Leifer’s out-of-print book, «In The Name of Mental Health» (1969), is now available again as a free eBook for download.
«In The Name of Mental Health» offers an indepth look into the social
functions that psychiatry carries out on behalf of the state. Inspired
by his teacher and mentor, Thomas Szasz, the author unravels the complex
semantics that masquerad psychiatry’s true role, exposing step by step
the founding myths of mental illness and psychiatry’s claim of being a
branch of medicine, demonstrating that its sole purpose is exerting
social control disguised as medical care—thus allowing governments based
on the Rule of Law to repress dissent and social deviancy without
overtly infrindging their constitution, and circumventing civil and
human rights.
Ron Leifer guides the reader through the history of psychiatry, its
terminology and core beliefs, analyzing each building block of the
psychiatric enterprise and its ideology under the lenses of medicine,
sociology and philosophy, showing the various historical forces,
conflicts and interests that led to the medicalization of human
behaviour and the institution of psychiatric social control—thus
allowing the reader to fully understand the huge gap and contradictions
between what psychiatrists claim to be doing and the reality of
psychiatric practices outcome on everyday life.
«In The Name of Mental Health» is a book written for the benefit of
all those who believe in mental health and psychiatric dogmas, it’s an
eye-opener to the entangled outlook on life that psychiatry brought
about, and a chance to set us free from its mystifying spell and regain
insight into the real nature of existential problems, on how to deal
with them and how to free psychology and psychoanalysis from the fallacy
of the medical model.
You can download the ebook choosing between ePub and Mobipocket
format—and read it offline in your eReader, smartphone, tablet or PC.
Digital edition by Tristano Ajmone, OISM Editions, August 2015.
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