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

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

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)

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