Secular humanism and "scientific psychiatry"

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Szasz T. [1 ]
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[1] Department of Psychiatry, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
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Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine | / 1卷 / 1期
关键词：
Brain Disease; Mental Patient; Innocent Person; Civil Commitment; Insanity Defense;
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10.1186/1747-5341-1-5
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The Council for Secular Humanism identifies Secular Humanism as a "way of thinking and living" committed to rejecting authoritarian beliefs and embracing "individual freedom and responsibility... and cooperation." The paradigmatic practices of psychiatry are civil commitment and insanity defense, that is, depriving innocent persons of liberty and excusing guilty persons of their crimes: the consequences of both are confinement in institutions ostensibly devoted to the treatment of mental diseases. Black's Law Dictionary states: "Every confinement of the person is an 'imprisonment,' whether it be in a common prison, or in private house, or in the stocks, or even by forcibly detaining one in the public streets." Accordingly, I maintain that Secular Humanism is incompatible with the principles and practices of psychiatry. © 2006 Szasz; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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