Pain and Pleasure: A Study of Bodily Feelings

Where are pain and pleasure experienced: in the mind, the brain, or both?

Thomas Szasz: The Man and His Ideas

I review the book, Thomas Szasz: The Man and His Ideas.

The Last Interview of Thomas Szasz

Movie review of: The Last Interview with Thomas Szasz.

Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America

Thomas Szasz argues that medicine has unwittingly become the new de facto religion in America.

My Madness Saved Me: The Madness and Marriage of Virginia Woolf

A retrospective psychoanalysis of the life and death of Virginia Woolf by the iconoclast psychiatrist Thomas Szasz.

Recollections of a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: The Case of “Prisoner K”

In a rare psychoanalytic case history, Thomas Szasz presents Recollections of a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: The Case of "Prisoner 'K'". In it, Szasz gives us an opportunity to see how he actually practiced psychotherapy. Szasz mentions in the first pages that his practice has since changed, but that he views the case as an adequate case … Continue reading Recollections of a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: The Case of “Prisoner K” →

The Economics of Szasz: Preferences, Constraints, and Mental Illness

In the paper, The Economics of Szasz: Preferences, Constraints, and Mental Illness, Bryan Caplan summarizes Thomas Szasz’s views on mental illness and translates them into the language of economics. Caplan is an economist with a wide variety of interests. He is an interesting writer, thinker, and regularly provokes conversation on Twitter and his blog. Caplan won … Continue reading The Economics of Szasz: Preferences, Constraints, and Mental Illness →