This is one of my favorite books of all time

Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz tears down his own field; He argues that framing moral / social issues as illnesses absolves individuals of responsibility and turns psychiatrists into moral arbiters

The title is rather inflammatory but it works a good litmus test for how open-minded someone *actually* is given the content inside

Started this after seeing this cast. Solid rec, enjoying it thoroughly

I’m glad! Anything in particular standing out to you so far?

found fascinating the argument that "hysteria was cut from the cloth of malingering", that the absence / faking of a disease was considered a disease itself. Reminds me of other paradoxes that arise from the self-reflexive nature of postmodern thinking (e.g. being apolitical is political)

Ahhh I love this! Your comparison to apoliticism being political nowadays is fantastic

It’s a book that I feel always opens conversations to take you down all sorts of roads