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The legacy – or not – of Dr Thomas Szasz (1920–2012)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Trevor Turner*
Affiliation:
Keats House, 24–26 St Thomas Street, London SE1 9RS, UK, email [email protected]
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Abstract

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Dr Trevor Turner was asked to provide a commentary on the preceding paper in this issue, ‘“Freedom is more important than health”: Thomas Szasz and the problem of paternalism’, by Joanna Moncrieff.

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References

Moncrieff, J. (2014) ‘Freedom is more important than health’: Thomas Szasz and the problem of paternalism. International Psychiatry, 11, 4648.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Roth, M. (1976) Schizophrenia and the theories of Thomas Szasz. British Journal of Psychiatry, 129, 317326.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
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