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Curing, Coercing, and Claims-Making: A Reply to Critics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Thomas Szasz
Thomas Szasz*
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SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse, New York 13210, USA
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 162 , Issue 6 , June 1993 , pp. 797 - 800
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