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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 125, No. 10
Articles   |   April 01, 1969 
Some Thoughts on Thomas Szasz
FRED M. SANDER
Am J Psychiatry 1969;125:1429-1431.
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Family studies section, Bronx State Hospital, 1500 Waters Pl., Bronx, N. Y. 10461, instructor, department of psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University
1968-69, American Psychiatric Association
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The author explores Thomas Szasz's concept of mental illness as socially rather than organically determined, his division of analysands into "seekers" and "avoiders," and the implications of this for autonomy/heteronomy. The author feels that Dr. Szasz may be reinstating the mind-body dichotomy in his emphasis on a division between medicine and psychiatry, although his concern with psychiatry's need for a value system is important.Abstract Teaser
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