The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality, and NeuroscienceThis is Szasz's most ambitious work to date. In his best-selling book, The Myth of Mental Illness, he took psychiatry to task for misconstruing human conflict and coping as mental illness. In Our Right to Drugs, he exposed the irrationality and political opportunism that fuels the Drug War. In The Meaning of Mind, he warns that we misconstrue the dialogue within as a problem of consciousness and neuroscience, and do so at our own peril. |
Contents
Selfblame and Selfpraise | 23 |
Fabricating the Past and the Future | 47 |
The Abuse of Neuroscience | 75 |
The History of an Idea | 101 |
Mental Illness | 115 |
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