Podcast appearances and mentions of Thomas Szasz

Ever since I first learned about the writings of Dr. Thomas Szasz, I've been skeptical of the therapeutic state. Check out this mind-blowing thread on the Rosenhan Effect and how a Stanford psychologist exposed some very inconvenient truths. If you've had high hopes that Trump and DOGE might eventually bring an end to the IRS, think again. Ryan McMaken says, the IRS isn't going away, and this is how we know. Article of the Day: Nowhere is official revisionism more at work than in how Americans are taught about the War Between the States (Lincoln's war of involuntary union). Thomas Kaufman says it's time to tell the story of the Civil War (sic) truthfully. Sponsors: Life Saving Food Fifty Two Seven Alliance HSL Ammo Quilt & Sew

Bryan Caplan, economist and bestselling author, discusses practical wisdom from modern economics and ancient philosophy.He argues against medicalization of human behavior, champions personal agency, and reveals why appeasement often beats confrontation. Caplan shows how lessons from economics can serve as self-help and why creating a "social bubble" – the modern version of an Epicurean garden – might be the smartest way to navigate modern life.The conversation spans Epicurean and Stoic perspectives on death, social obligations, and the thinker Thomas Szasz.Self-Help Is Like a VaccineThe Myth of the Rational VoterCaplan on Szasz***Subscribe to The Stoa Letter for weekly meditations, actions, and links to the best Stoic resources: www.stoaletter.com/subscribeDownload the Stoa app (it's a free download): https://stoameditation.com/podIf you try the Stoa app and find it useful, but truly cannot afford it, email us and we'll set you up with a free account.Listen to more episodes and learn more here: https://stoameditation.com/blog/stoa-conversations/Thanks to Michael Levy for graciously letting us use his music in the conversations: https://ancientlyre.com/

As St. John draws us more deeply into his understanding of prayer and the experience of intimacy with God, he begins to emphasize the importance of maintaining purity of heart and humility. Either through negligence or through demonic provocation, we can find ourselves being driven not by the Holy Spirit toward God but rather driven by the desires of the flesh. The vulnerability of prayer, opening our minds and our hearts to God, also carries with it the need to have established watchfulness of heart. If we have not we can indiscriminately open ourselves up to certain dangers. For example, we may allow our mind to wander during prayer in such a way that we turn away from God. It can even happen that in this turning away we are move towards the enemies of God. Like Judas we can share most intimately with the Lord at the table of the holy Eucharist and then immediately be driven out by an unholy spirit into the darkness. It is those who are closest to Christ who often betray him the most.  We all take certain things for granted. This is true in our relationship with God. We can treat that relationship cheaply; enter into it with a kind of familiarity to the point that we lose sight of the preciousness of what God has made possible for us. Our attachment to the things of this world or to individuals can fill our minds and our hearts even during the time of prayer. Therefore, John wants us to have no illusions about what it is that we ask for and seek in prayer. Our greatest desire should be what leads us to God and what endures unto eternity. As Saint James tell us: “we ask, but we do not receive because we ask wrongly.” We seek only the satisfy our natural wants and desires.  As it has been said, “The fool's portion is small in his eyes.” Often we do not see the beauty of what God offers us. --- Text of chat during the group: 00:12:58 Bob Cihak, AZ: P.239, #50   00:13:44 Tracey Fredman: Reacted to "P.239, #50" with

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/94887548 Beatrice and Abby speak with Robert Chapman about their new book, Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism, and discuss the close relationship between the fields of statistics and eugenics through five thinkers—Adolphe Quetelet, Francis Galton, Karl Pearson, Ronald Fisher, and Thomas Szasz—whose ideas continue to influence how the state manages neurodiversity and disability. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:38:47, 18 December 2023

SCRIPTURE Hosea 10:1-14:9 Jude 1:1-25 Psalm 127:1-5 Proverbs 29:15-17 AFFIRMATION: "In the pursuit of becoming, we discover the beauty of being." APHORISM: Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love. ~Thomas Szasz ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Verses 'n' Flow | Donate⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Music by Tim D. Clinton --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jenniferwainwright/message

Dimes and Judas discuss the sexual controversy of pears and breaking minds with wank Juggalo memes, and Greta Thunberg deflecting claims of antisemitism with the power of autism. This leads directly into the latest developments of the Israel/Gaza conflict and an expansion/rant on the response to the previous episode's season/balanced arguments. From there they launch into a searing indictment on mental illness, citing the book “The Therapeutic State” by Thomas Szasz, part of a famous corpus denouncing the entire field of psychiatry from the mind of a renowned psychologist. Dissecting what he termed the “medicalization of penalization,” they strike at the core of the mythology of mental health itself. Timestamps: 1:29 – Sweatpants with Cowboy Boots 5:10 – Are Pears Mad Dumb? 8:42 – Parsnips and Hot Dogs for Dinner 11:37 – Breaking Women's Minds with a Juggalo Meme 15:43 – The Birth of Wank Malkovich 18:59 – Greta Thunberg is Autismsemetic 25:11 – Philosemitism Cannot Overtake Youth Nihilism 38:31 – NYC Garbage Man Discusses Private Neighbourhoods 41:57 – Third Worldism vs. Self Interest in Dissident Spheres Rant Begins 1:17:34 – Dimes Book Review Shoutout 1:24:12 – New Good Svffer Creator Partnerships 1:26:09 – The Therapeutic State Discussion Begins 1:30:10 – Psychanalysis as a Replacement for Morality 1:33:16 – Is Mental Illness Even Real? 1:38:57 – The Deinstitutionalization Movement 1:44:20 – Schizophrenia as the Study as Misbehavior Itself 1:49:42 – The Validation of Imagining Sickness as Sickness Itself 1:54:13 – Dr. Menninger and the Mental Illness of All People 2:00:35 – Temporary and Convenient Insanity 2:06:43 – Morality vs. Addiction

En este episodio de #PodcastLaTrinchera, Christian Sobrino conversa con el autor y politólogo Emmanuel Rincón sobre su libro del 2020, 'La reinvención ideológica de América Latina: La cura contra el socialismo y la pobreza.' Emmanuel Rincón es el fundador y principal oficial ejecutivo (CEO) de Regional Renaissance, una firma de consultoría política y de comunicaciones dedicada a la promoción de libertades individuales y los estados limitados. Pueden obtener copia de los libros discutidos en el episodio en Amazon mediante los siguientes enlaces:- 'La reinvención ideológica de América Latina: La cura contra el socialismo y la pobreza'- 'El hombre jugando a ser Dios'- 'El decálogo del hombre igualitario'Sus cuentas de Twitter / X son las siguientes:- @EmmaRincon- @InformeOrwell- @RegionalRenaisPor favor suscribirse a La Trinchera con Christian Sobrino en su plataforma favorita de podcasts y compartan este episodio con sus amistades.Para contactar a Christian Sobrino y #PodcastLaTrinchera, nada mejor que mediante las siguientes plataformas:Facebook: @PodcastLaTrincheraTwitter: @zobrinovichInstagram: zobrinovichThreads: @zobrinovichYouTube: @PodcastLaTrinchera"La invasión al gobierno y las cortes por los científicos de comportamiento ha producido lo que Thomas Szasz llama el 'estado terapéutico.' [...] Szasz también observa que si la gente cree que los valores salubristas justifican la coerción, pero que los valores morales y políticos no la justifican, aquellos que desean obligar a otros tendrán la tendencia de incrementar la categoría de valores salubristas a expensas de valores morales." - Paul Gottfried citando a Thomas Szasz 

Here at LKP, we're getting a little tired of the over-saturation of mental health influencers in social media. Meet the man who is the antithesis of a TikTok therapist, who authors "The Myth of Mental Illness". How does that make you feel?

Todd talks to Psychologist Jeffrey Schaler about the beliefs of he and Thomas Szasz, with whom he worked. The two challenged the idea that there is such a thing as mental illness and its use in justifying the commitment of patients against their will. He has had a private practice in existential therapy since the 1970s.

The Rational Egoist: The Myth of Mental Illness and the Therapeutic State with Jeffrey Schaler In this episode of The Rational Egoist, host Michael Liebowitz interviews Jeffrey Schaler, author of "Szasz Under Fire," to discuss Thomas Szasz's psychology and his belief that mental illness is a myth. They delve into the concept of involuntary psychiatry and the notion that no one should be forced into treatment. They explore the idea that mental health is an existential problem of living and that individuals must be free to make their own decisions.Schaler argues that even with mental illness, people still have the free will to make good decisions. He challenges the notion that just because someone hears a voice telling them to do something, it means they must do it. Schaler also questions the validity of mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia or anxiety, as physical malfunctions since the mind cannot be identified through an autopsy.The conversation also touches on the idea of gender being a subjective experience of being male or female, while sex is the biological component. They discuss how branding someone as mentally ill due to identifying as a different gender takes away their freedom of speech and uses psychology as law.The episode concludes with a discussion on addiction and the belief that it is not a disease, but rather a volitional behavior that people can control. Liebowitz and Schaler argue that psychology has become an extension of the law, and that psychologists cannot know with certainty who may harm themselves or others. They challenge the idea that statistics are used in courts to remove responsibility and plead insanity, and emphasize the importance of individual freedom and responsibility in mental health treatment. Michael Liebowitz is a philosopher, political activist, and host of the Rational Egoist podcast. He is a passionate advocate of reason and his views have been heavily influenced by the philosopher Ayn Rand. Liebowitz has dedicated his life to promoting its principles of rational self-interest, individualism, and reason. In addition to his work as a podcast host, Liebowitz is also a prominent spokesperson for the Libertarian Party for Connecticut - USA and has been involved in a number of political debates advocating for individual rights and freedoms through his YouTube videos and interviews. Liebowitz's life story is a testament to the transformative power of the writings of Ayn Rand. After spending 25 years in prison, he was able to turn his life around by embracing the principles of rational self-interest and morality espoused by Ayn Rand. He has since become an influential voice in the libertarian and Objectivist communities, using his own experience to inspire others to live their lives in accordance with reason, individualism, and self-interest. Liebowitz is also the co-author of "Down the Rabbit Hole: How the Culture of Correction Encourages Crime," a book that explores the ways in which misguided societal attitudes towards punishment and rehabilitation have led to a rise in crime and recidivism. In addition to his work in politics and philosophy, Liebowitz is a regular guest on the Todd Feinburg show at WTIC, where he provides expert commentary on a range of political and social issues.

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” — Thomas Szasz

Joel Stern, a well-read acquaintance of Harriet's, brings some perspectives and critiques of the psych field - though by his own admission he has no professional background in Psychiatry, Psychotherapy etc - he nevertheless instigates a very lively discussion regarding the conception of mental health/illness and an extended debate around the anti-psychiatry position (and the stigma that that can also cause). Ikoi offers a series of very well measured counter arguments - medication is not a cure but a symptom management tool. References: "The benefit from therapy versus therapy plus medication was identical": https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/09/dilemma-placebo-psychiatry/ 'In 2011, Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged: “Whatever we've been doing for five de­cades, it ain't working. And when I look at the numbers—the number of sui­cides, number of disabilities, mortality data—it's abysmal, and it's not getting any better.”': https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/09/09/what-liberal-admonishers-of-left-psychiatry-critics-get-wrong/ "Psychiatry's definition of a mental disorder/illness is so wide that it embraces virtually every significant problem of thinking, feeling, and/or behaving, and psychiatry uses this definition to spuriously medicalize a growing range of problems that are not medical in nature.": https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/04/in-defense-of-anti-psychiatry/ Psychiatry: The Science of Lies by Thomas Szasz: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4955102-psychiatry Brain Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry: Drugs, Electroshock & the Psychopharmaceutical Complex: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3707139-brain-disabling-treatments-in-psychiatry -- Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at itsnotjustinyourhead@gmail.com. -- Harriet's other shows: WBAI Interpersonal Update (Wednesdays): https://wbai.org/program.php?program=431 Capitalism Hits Home: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPJpiw1WYdTNYvke-gNRdml1Z2lwz0iEH -- ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message: This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms of the mental health space, however, it should not be considered medical advice. Please consult your medical professional with regards to any health decisions or management. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message

Bryan Caplan and I discuss the ideas of the iconoclast social critic and psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. Dr. Caplan won the Thomas Szasz award in 2005 for his paper, The Economics of Szasz: Preferences, Constraints, and Mental Illness. We have a wide-ranging conversation about Szasz, his ideas, and how to help ourselves and others when struggling with life. Dr. Caplan shares some of his personal experiences with depression during Covid and how he got out of it. Related Episodes Bryan Caplan on Parenting: https://youtu.be/JM0dGLRgko0 Anthony Stadlen on Szasz: https://youtu.be/wzVVLgpgLBA Jeffrey Schaler on Szasz: https://youtu.be/7wySu4S1w14 Christopher Lane on Shyness: https://youtu.be/GrV46aVkNvM Irvin Kirsch on Antidepressants: https://youtu.be/PtubmyA3BgU Related Videos John Nash on Schizophrenia: https://youtu.be/SizS1nOOeJg Take These Broken Wings (Documentary about Schizophrenia): https://youtu.be/EPfKc-TknWU Titicut Follies (Mistreatment of Involuntary Patients): https://youtu.be/e-wVwtN5f-U Crazywise Film: https://youtu.be/IXnmBIYaIZE Jim Van Os on Schizophrenia: https://youtu.be/sE3gxX5CiW0 Chapters: 00:00 Intro to Bryan Caplan https://twitter.com/bryan_caplan 00:35 Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids https://amzn.to/3NZcxQg 00:56 How did you discover Thomas Szasz? 01:33 The Untamed Tongue https://amzn.to/3NYtTwI 02:07 Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences https://amzn.to/3aAp3bn 02:34 Myth of Mental Illness https://amzn.to/3ANgIvp 02:57 Ceremonial Chemistry https://amzn.to/3P4IBU5 03:25 How long did it take you to understand Szasz? 06:13 What do you think most people misunderstood about Szasz? 08:14 Heavy drinkers respond to incentives https://wp.me/p8ReVr-1i5 10:55 How homosexuality got declassified as a disease 11:41 Transvestism 12:34 The Useful Lie https://wp.me/p8ReVr-1eT 12:56 Responsibility 14:34 Criticisms of Szasz 15:42 Szasz as a philosopher of mind https://wp.me/p8ReVr-rs 16:34 Scott Alexander https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/10/07/contra-caplan-on-mental-illness/ 17:53 Drapetomania https://g.co/kgs/5qVtCe 18:06 What was it like to meet Szasz? https://www.econlib.org/archives/2012/09/thomas_szasz_a.html 19:29 Suicide https://amzn.to/3RuQS5w 20:05 Why do you think Szasz wrote so much? 21:00 Did you get pushback when writing your paper on Szasz? 22:19 Shakespeare and Szasz 23:24 Has Szasz helped you in your personal life? 27:12 Brittany Spears 28:27 Addiction is a Choice https://wp.me/p8ReVr-9U 29:05 Karl Kraus https://wp.me/p8ReVr-1hz 29:51 Szasz's political beliefs 31:13 Suicide 32:29 Epicurus https://epicurus.net/en/menoeceus.html 32:54 Julian Simon https://amzn.to/3P4Kct3 35:17 Surround yourself with friends 36:11 How do you stay productive? 37:51 Lucretius http://classics.mit.edu/Carus/nature_things.html 39:01 How do you deal with depression during Covid? 41:16 Faith in Freedom https://amzn.to/3caLvIq 41:38 Free will https://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/freewill 43:38 Writing advice 44:45 The Baader Meinhof Complex https://youtu.be/2UPrDdb0r70 46:43 Economics of Szasz http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/pdfs/szasz.pdf 49:50 Rational vs. Irrational 52:53 Schizophrenia https://amzn.to/3AK5yb3 56:10 Biographies of schizophrenics https://amzn.to/3IBtJu0 59:15 Hearing voices https://youtu.be/sE3gxX5CiW0 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aaronolson/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aaronolson/support

Bryan Caplan and I discuss the ideas of the iconoclast social critic and psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. Dr. Caplan won the Thomas Szasz award in 2005 for his paper, The Economics of Szasz: Preferences, Constraints, and Mental Illness. We have a wide-ranging conversation about Szasz, his ideas, and how to help ourselves and others when struggling with life. Dr. Caplan shares some of his personal experiences with depression during Covid and how he got out of it. Related Episodes Bryan Caplan on Parenting: https://youtu.be/JM0dGLRgko0 Anthony Stadlen on Szasz: https://youtu.be/wzVVLgpgLBA Jeffrey Schaler on Szasz: https://youtu.be/7wySu4S1w14 Christopher Lane on Shyness: https://youtu.be/GrV46aVkNvM Irvin Kirsch on Antidepressants: https://youtu.be/PtubmyA3BgU Related Videos John Nash on Schizophrenia: https://youtu.be/SizS1nOOeJg Take These Broken Wings (Documentary about Schizophrenia): https://youtu.be/EPfKc-TknWU Titicut Follies (Mistreatment of Involuntary Patients): https://youtu.be/e-wVwtN5f-U Crazywise Film: https://youtu.be/IXnmBIYaIZE Jim Van Os on Schizophrenia: https://youtu.be/sE3gxX5CiW0 Chapters: 00:00 Intro to Bryan Caplan https://twitter.com/bryan_caplan 00:35 Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids https://amzn.to/3NZcxQg 00:56 How did you discover Thomas Szasz? 01:33 The Untamed Tongue https://amzn.to/3NYtTwI 02:07 Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences https://amzn.to/3aAp3bn 02:34 Myth of Mental Illness https://amzn.to/3ANgIvp 02:57 Ceremonial Chemistry https://amzn.to/3P4IBU5 03:25 How long did it take you to understand Szasz? 06:13 What do you think most people misunderstood about Szasz? 08:14 Heavy drinkers respond to incentives https://wp.me/p8ReVr-1i5 10:55 How homosexuality got declassified as a disease 11:41 Transvestism 12:34 The Useful Lie https://wp.me/p8ReVr-1eT 12:56 Responsibility 14:34 Criticisms of Szasz 15:42 Szasz as a philosopher of mind https://wp.me/p8ReVr-rs 16:34 Scott Alexander https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/10/07/contra-caplan-on-mental-illness/ 17:53 Drapetomania https://g.co/kgs/5qVtCe 18:06 What was it like to meet Szasz? https://www.econlib.org/archives/2012/09/thomas_szasz_a.html 19:29 Suicide https://amzn.to/3RuQS5w 20:05 Why do you think Szasz wrote so much? 21:00 Did you get pushback when writing your paper on Szasz? 22:19 Shakespeare and Szasz 23:24 Has Szasz helped you in your personal life? 27:12 Brittany Spears 28:27 Addiction is a Choice https://wp.me/p8ReVr-9U 29:05 Karl Kraus https://wp.me/p8ReVr-1hz 29:51 Szasz's political beliefs 31:13 Suicide 32:29 Epicurus https://epicurus.net/en/menoeceus.html 32:54 Julian Simon https://amzn.to/3P4Kct3 35:17 Surround yourself with friends 36:11 How do you stay productive? 37:51 Lucretius http://classics.mit.edu/Carus/nature_things.html 39:01 How do you deal with depression during Covid? 41:16 Faith in Freedom https://amzn.to/3caLvIq 41:38 Free will https://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/freewill 43:38 Writing advice 44:45 The Baader Meinhof Complex https://youtu.be/2UPrDdb0r70 46:43 Economics of Szasz http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/pdfs/szasz.pdf 49:50 Rational vs. Irrational 52:53 Schizophrenia https://amzn.to/3AK5yb3 56:10 Biographies of schizophrenics https://amzn.to/3IBtJu0 59:15 Hearing voices https://youtu.be/sE3gxX5CiW0 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aaronolson/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aaronolson/support

While suffering and anguish are 100% real to those of us (ALL of us!) who experience it, the concept of mental illness is a completely fabricated social construct that is -- the whitecoats invented it and sold it to us. Let's start digging in to exactly how this happened. Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial by Peter Gotsche*ISEPP website (PsychIntegrity.org)Amen ClinicsToxic Psychiatry by Peter Breggin, M.D.*Thomas Szasz, M.D.*Medical Medium by Anthony William* * = If you purchase through our Amazon Associate links, we may receive a small commission that supports our show. Thank you!!

In this very first episode of Missdiagnosed, host Caitlin Pyle discloses a brief history of her own experience as a survivor of the mental health industry and sets the tone for upcoming episodes (no pun intended). A snapshot of what you'll learn in Episode 1: > Where the word “psychiatry” came from > How the American Psychiatric Association defines “psychiatry” > What claims psychiatry makes about their “treatment” > Underlying causes of so-called mental illness (it's NOT a biochemical imbalance…) ... And so much more!Articles Referenced:American Psychiatric Association's definition of PsychiatryMaybe We Should Call Psychiatry Something Else by Nathaniel Morris, M.D.Is it Time to Do Away with Psychiatry? Elliott B. Martin, Jr., M.D.Books/Authors ReferencedToxic Psychiatry by Peter Breggin, M.D.*Thomas Szasz, M.D.*Medical Medium by Anthony William*The End of Mental Illness by Daniel Amen, M.D.** Denotes Amazon Associates link. Missdiagnosed may receive a small commission when you purchase items through our links.

Ami joins Ross to discuss the benefits of decluttering your physical and psychic space.  Tangents include: Marie Kondo; Saabs; Black Mirror; Thomas Szasz.   Ross estimates how many years Ami has left.Notes:  https://www.amazon.com/Abundance-Less-Lessons-Simple-Living/dp/1623171326/ref=asc_df_1623171326/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312144625645&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10766060522767668219&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=200819&hvtargid=pla-434934342141&psc=1https://www.nbcnews.com/better/health/what-swedish-death-cleaning-should-you-be-doing-it-ncna816511Support the show

Bienvenidos a un nuevo episodio de la Tribu Estoica. En el día de hoy vamos a conocer cuál es la opinión de Szasz acerca del uso que el Estado está haciendo de la prohibición del consumo de drogas para limitar los derechos individuales de sus ciudadanos. Desde el derecho a la propiedad hasta el de una muerte digna, pasando por los crímenes sin víctimas, repasaremos todos estos temas y veremos qué tiene todo esto que ver con los estoicos y Séneca. Si te ha resultado interesante, te agradecería que me lo hicieras saber con un like, una suscripción y un comentario. Y como siempre digo, ¡nos escuchamos en el siguiente episodio, tribu! Twitter: @EstoicaTribu

The late Dr. Thomas Szasz, who was well known to libertarians, believed using coercion to treat psychiatric patients was a form of torture. He left a legacy of freedom in a profession that has all but abandoned liberty. Original Article: "Dr. Thomas Szasz's Campaign against Psychiatric Coercion and the 'Therapeutic State'" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

The late Dr. Thomas Szasz, who was well known to libertarians, believed using coercion to treat psychiatric patients was a form of torture. He left a legacy of freedom in a profession that has all but abandoned liberty. Original Article: "Dr. Thomas Szasz's Campaign against Psychiatric Coercion and the 'Therapeutic State'" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

  To fully appreciate the magnitude of the coming financial shift, we first need to understand what's happening to the petrodollar system. Nick Giambruno explains what its coming collapse portends. I sometimes wonder how many people really recognize the seriousness of those who are trying to eliminate free speech to "protect" us from "misinformation." The Good Citizen warns that the internet is next. A story out of Canada shows an interesting correlation between those who've had 3 or more Covid vaccinations and those who most strongly support war against Russia. The Z-man takes a closer look at the hive mind. Why do the "vaccinated" want a war with Russia while the "unvaccinated" don't? Mark Crispin Miller has a take worth considering. If you don't know about Dr. Thomas Szasz and his campaign against psychiatric coercion and the therapeutic state, here's a great place to start. Bernardo Decoster has an excellent article on the late psychiatrist's message regarding coercion vs. voluntary treatment. Sponsors: HSL Ammo Sewing & Quilting Center Monticello College Life Saving Food  The Heather Turner Team at Patriot Home Mortgage Govern Your Crypto

The powers that be spent a lot of time and effort after WWII creating global interdependence. Now it's biting all of us in the rear. J.B. Shurk explains how regional self-sufficiency is the key to keeping the peace in our time. The upcoming elections were looking more and more like a day of reckoning for Democrats and lockdowners. Now, as Jordan Schachtel puts it, 2022 has become the "preventing WWIII election." Never underestimate the power of a good myth to keep people from noticing things they're not supposed to notice. The Z-man has a great take on today's mythmaking as it relates to U.S. foreign policy. The thought of food scarcity is too frightening for many of us to even consider. John Klar says beware the great agricultural reset where food, famine and fear will be used to bring us under control. To fully appreciate the magnitude of the coming financial shift, we first need to understand what's happening to the petrodollar system. Nick Giambruno explains what its coming collapse portends. I sometimes wonder how many people really recognize the seriousness of those who are trying to eliminate free speech to "protect" us from "misinformation." The Good Citizen warns that the internet is next. A story out of Canada shows an interesting correlation between those who've had 3 or more Covid vaccinations and those who most strongly support war against Russia. The Z-man takes a closer look at the hive mind. Why do the "vaccinated" want a war with Russia while the "unvaccinated" don't? Mark Crispin Miller has a take worth considering. If you don't know about Dr. Thomas Szasz and his campaign against psychiatric coercion and the therapeutic state, here's a great place to start. Bernardo Decoster has an excellent article on the late psychiatrist's message regarding coercion vs. voluntary treatment. www.thebryanhydeshow.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/loving-liberty/support

On Thomas Szasz's theory of mind, based mostly on his paper "Mind, Brain, and the Problem of Responsibility" (2000).

I chat with Tomi Gomory about the well-known psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. Tomi is an associate professor of social work at Florida State University. He was a friend of Szasz during the end of Szasz's life and is working on a biography about him. Here we discuss some of Szasz's basic ideas, his books, and how he is sometimes misunderstood.Originally posted 22 November 2021

Denker, Gurus und Gelehrte, von denen man mal gehört haben sollte - das Thema für diesmal: die Anti-Psychiatrie-Bewegung rund um Thomas Szasz.

Today we are reviewing 'The Myth of Mental Illness by Dr Thomas Szasz which gives a critique of the psychiatric field and tries to explain why there is no such thing as mental illness. Now as you can tell by the title of this episode, this is quite a controversial book, we mean no offence but we thought it would be interesting to review it and see how it compares with the mainstream idea of therapeutics and psychiatry. Dr Szasz's main point about mental illness is that it refers to the mind, which is not a biological construct but a mere abstraction of the brain, thus suggesting that there is no such thing as mental illness as any illness must be biological. How this biological illness may have started is a different matter. The book is based around the concept of diagnosing something based on biological or environmental causes. How do you tell which is having an effect on the individual and how should one go about helping that individual, a drug for a biological cause or therapy for an environmental one. In this episode, we touch on many topics such as incentives to diagnose, free will in regard to overcoming an illness, drugs and whether they are a solution, and much more.I do recommend you give it a listen, if anything it just makes you question the system that we take so freely for granted. Whether he is right in his observations, it is an interesting listen that I guarantee will spark a bit of interest. And remember if you do like it, make sure you give us a thumbs up, leave a comment or make our day by subscribing to our channel. I hope you enjoy it.--If you enjoyed this podcast make sure to check out our other content on our other platforms:Website: https://wisewords.blog/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wisewords.blog/Twitter: https://twitter.com/wisewordsblogFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/WiseWordsBlogYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEWeK869x5kMOadyLiW2zQg

Inspired by Dr Thomas Szasz, the Brotherhood discovers that Mental Illness is a myth. ALSO IN THE PODCAST - What's the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist? - What is the difference between speaking in tongues and demonic possession? - Are anxiety and depression real diseases, or are people just hungry and sad? - Mental Illness and its uses in evading criminal responsibility - Mental Illness is more of a moral question than a medical question Sponsored by @elivareeluxurymugs; @senju_kay; @forthaglory

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The unconventional psychologist Thomas Szasz pointed out the strange contradiction in the cultural standard of what we consider sane in this quote: “If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.” In societies with a negative association around hearing voices, people normally have negative experiences when they hear voices. In places with a positive cultural association, people will have a positive experience, believing that people who hear such things are somehow gifted, they are shamans or healers. Sometimes what people refer to as “the voice of God” is something that we all have access to, the voice of our intuition, our deepest internal wisdom. When we listen to it and heed it, wonderful things just might happen. For the transcript: Talk to God A Beautiful Thought --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/beautiful-thought/message

5/20/2021 - In the fifty-eighth episode of Beyond Talking Points, Matt and Matt use a video of the late psychiatrist Thomas Szasz as a starting point for a discussion on psychiatry, and the mental health field as a whole. Does mental illness exist? Is it morally permissible to hold people against their will in a psychiatric institution? These questions and more are explored here. This is not necessarily an outright political topic, but it is a relevant and polarizing topic.

00:00:00.000 Anthony Stadlen http://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/ 00:00:16.899 Anthony's interest in psychotherapy 00:02:24.037 Sartre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_faith_(existentialism) 00:04:23.061 James Joyce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce 00:04:29.562 Freud: Interpretation of Dreams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Interpretation_of_Dreams 00:05:21.125 Leonardo Da Vinci https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci 00:08:21.490 Existential analyst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_therapy 00:08:27.437 Ronald D. Laing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.D._Laing 00:08:28.518 Aaron Esterson https://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/p/obituary-aaron-esterson-daily-telegraph.html 00:09:46.627 The Divided Self https://amzn.to/3sIePsy 00:09:58.269 Existence Rollo May https://amzn.to/3dIHd9G 00:10:36.515 Ludwig Binswanger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Binswanger 00:10:52.429 Case of Ellen West https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_West 00:13:52.286 The Myth of Mental Illness https://amzn.to/3nbmcrf 00:15:05.405 Praxis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis(process) 00:15:07.044 Human Action https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Action 00:16:50.937 Reason and Violence https://amzn.to/3tLjaMD 00:16:57.188 Sanity, Madness and the Family https://amzn.to/3awAnlF 00:17:07.867 David Cooper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cooper_(psychiatrist) 00:19:54.390 Szasz was an intellectual terrorist 00:22:16.654 When did you first meet Szasz? 00:23:46.731 Anthony Clare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Clare 00:26:46.277 Case of Dora and Caterina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_(case_study) 00:29:12.498 A Poor Model for Students: The Case of Thomas Szasz https://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/p/a-poor-model-for-those-in-training.html?m=0 00:30:00.845 Inner Circle Seminars https://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/?m=0 00:30:52.644 Szasz Inner Circle Seminar https://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/2010/01/inner-circle-seminar-no-73-7-december.html?m=0 00:31:05.942 Thomas Szasz Award https://www.centerforindependentthought.org/szasz 00:32:15.575 Szasz was my best friend 00:33:41.920 Szasz was an out-and-out atheist 00:34:36.363 The Myth of Psychotherapy https://amzn.to/2QnBP2E 00:35:21.212 The cure of souls 00:35:33.326 Carl Jung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung 00:36:50.441 The Question of Lay Analysis https://amzn.to/3tNpbbY 00:38:57.796 Religious leaders as psychotherapists 00:40:03.788 Payment in therapy 00:40:31.500 The Ethics of Psychoanalysis https://existentialstoic.wordpress.com/2017/08/12/autonomous-psychotherapy/ 00:42:13.453 The Myth of Psychotherapy https://amzn.to/2QnBP2E 00:44:02.599 Attending to the soul 00:44:53.205 Did Szasz believe in psychotherapy? 00:45:59.848 Against Therapy https://amzn.to/32StBCB 00:47:13.783 Psychoanalysis under Stalinism 00:50:14.893 Possibility for repentance in psychotherapy 00:51:19.931 Money and psychotherapy 00:52:30.378 Contract in Psychotherapy 00:56:54.184 Worldly care of the soul 00:57:07.553 Secular pastoral counseling 01:03:35.776 Why is it so hard for people to understand Szasz? 01:05:13.137 Involuntary psychiatry and the insanity defense 01:06:48.050 How Szasz came to his thinking on psychiatry 01:10:12.714 Ignaz Semmelweis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis 01:21:49.341 Why I am not a health professional http://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/p/why-existential-psychotherapy-is-not.html 01:30:07.528 The religion of the state https://amzn.to/3nboTZI 01:33:38.296 Will Szasz's ideas ever become mainstream? 01:34:50.283 Szasz said psychotherapy was finished in the US 01:36:31.687 How did Szasz remain so prolific? 01:39:42.916 Szasz's suicide https://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/p/thomas-szasz-obituary-anthony-stadlen.html?m=0 01:41:49.343 What is your most fond memory of Szasz? 01:44:22.120 Szasz and the meaning of life

00:00:00.000 Introduction Anthony Stadlen 00:00:16.899 Anthony's interest in psychotherapy 00:01:08.488 Lies in family origin 00:02:24.037 Sartre 00:04:23.061 James Joyce 00:04:29.562 Freud 00:05:21.125 Leonardo Da vinci 00:08:21.490 Existential analyst 00:08:27.437 Ronald D. Lang 00:08:28.518 Aaron Esterson 00:09:46.627 The Divided Self 00:09:58.269 Existence Rollo May 00:10:36.515 Ludwig Binswanger 00:10:52.429 Case of Ellen West 00:13:52.286 The Myth of Mental Illness 00:15:05.405 Praxis 00:15:07.044 Human Action 00:16:44.197 RD Lang 00:16:48.205 Esterson 00:16:50.937 Reason and Violence 00:16:57.188 Sanity, Madness and the Family 00:17:07.867 David Cooper 00:17:41.758 Praxis 00:19:54.390 Szasz was an intellectual terrorist 00:22:16.654 When did you first meet Szasz? 00:23:46.731 Anthony Clare 00:26:46.277 Case of Dora and Caterina 00:29:12.498 A Poor Model for Students: The Case of Thomas Szasz https://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/p/a-poor-model-for-those-in-training.html?m=0 00:30:00.845 Inner Circle Seminars https://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/?m=0 00:30:52.644 Szasz Inner Circle Seminar 00:31:05.942 Thomas Szasz Award 00:32:15.575 Szasz was my best friend 00:33:41.920 Szasz was an out-and-out atheist 00:34:36.363 The Myth of Psychotherapy 00:35:21.212 The cure of souls 00:35:33.326 Carl Jung 00:36:50.441 The Question of Lay Analysis 00:38:57.796 Religious leaders as psychotherapists 00:40:03.788 Payment in therapy 00:40:31.500 The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 00:42:13.453 The Myth of Psychotherapy https://amzn.to/2QnBP2E 00:44:02.599 Attending to the soul 00:44:53.205 Did Szasz believe in psychotherapy? 00:45:59.848 Against Therapy https://amzn.to/32StBCB 00:47:13.783 Psychoanalysis under Stalinism 00:49:02.731 The only person Szasz could talk to about psychotherapy 00:49:35.836 Divine awe of psychotherapy 00:50:14.893 Possibility for repentance in psychotherapy 00:51:19.931 Money and psychotherapy 00:52:30.378 Contract in Psychotherapy 00:56:54.184 Worldly care of the soul 00:57:07.553 Secular pastoral counseling 00:57:30.013 Freud on Psychotherapy 01:00:04.744 Szasz on Psychotherapy 01:01:30.679 Religion, Rhetoric, Repression 01:02:58.525 Noble vs base rhetoric 01:03:35.776 Why is it so hard for people to understand Szasz? 01:05:13.137 Involuntary psychiatry and the insanity defense 01:06:48.050 How Szasz came to his thinking on psychiatry 01:07:09.955 Szasz as a child 01:10:12.714 Ignaz Semmelweis 01:14:13.690 Health vs ethics 01:15:51.900 Problems in living 01:21:49.341 Why I am not a health professional http://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/p/why-existential-psychotherapy-is-not.html 01:24:35.805 Freud, Anna Feud, Ernest Jones 01:27:42.847 Psychotherapy in UK needs no license 01:30:07.528 The religion of the state https://amzn.to/3nboTZI 01:31:53.675 Szasz in UK vs US 01:33:38.296 Will Szasz's ideas ever become mainstream? 01:34:50.283 Szasz said psychotherapy was finished in the US 01:36:31.687 How did Szasz remain so prolific? 01:37:45.213 Did Szasz still correspond in his old age? 01:39:42.916 Szasz's suicide https://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/p/thomas-szasz-obituary-anthony-stadlen.html?m=0 01:41:49.343 What is your most fond memory of Szasz? 01:44:22.120 Szasz and the meaning of life --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aaronolson/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aaronolson/support

00:00:00.000 Introduction Anthony Stadlen 00:00:16.899 Anthony's interest in psychotherapy 00:01:08.488 Lies in family origin 00:02:24.037 Sartre 00:04:23.061 James Joyce 00:04:29.562 Freud 00:05:21.125 Leonardo Da vinci 00:08:21.490 Existential analyst 00:08:27.437 Ronald D. Lang 00:08:28.518 Aaron Esterson 00:09:46.627 The Divided Self 00:09:58.269 Existence Rollo May 00:10:36.515 Ludwig Binswanger 00:10:52.429 Case of Ellen West 00:13:52.286 The Myth of Mental Illness 00:15:05.405 Praxis 00:15:07.044 Human Action 00:16:44.197 RD Lang 00:16:48.205 Esterson 00:16:50.937 Reason and Violence 00:16:57.188 Sanity, Madness and the Family 00:17:07.867 David Cooper 00:17:41.758 Praxis 00:19:54.390 Szasz was an intellectual terrorist 00:22:16.654 When did you first meet Szasz? 00:23:46.731 Anthony Clare 00:26:46.277 Case of Dora and Caterina 00:29:12.498 A Poor Model for Students: The Case of Thomas Szasz https://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/p/a-poor-model-for-those-in-training.html?m=0 00:30:00.845 Inner Circle Seminars https://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/?m=0 00:30:52.644 Szasz Inner Circle Seminar 00:31:05.942 Thomas Szasz Award 00:32:15.575 Szasz was my best friend 00:33:41.920 Szasz was an out-and-out atheist 00:34:36.363 The Myth of Psychotherapy 00:35:21.212 The cure of souls 00:35:33.326 Carl Jung 00:36:50.441 The Question of Lay Analysis 00:38:57.796 Religious leaders as psychotherapists 00:40:03.788 Payment in therapy 00:40:31.500 The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 00:42:13.453 The Myth of Psychotherapy https://amzn.to/2QnBP2E 00:44:02.599 Attending to the soul 00:44:53.205 Did Szasz believe in psychotherapy? 00:45:59.848 Against Therapy https://amzn.to/32StBCB 00:47:13.783 Psychoanalysis under Stalinism 00:49:02.731 The only person Szasz could talk to about psychotherapy 00:49:35.836 Divine awe of psychotherapy 00:50:14.893 Possibility for repentance in psychotherapy 00:51:19.931 Money and psychotherapy 00:52:30.378 Contract in Psychotherapy 00:56:54.184 Worldly care of the soul 00:57:07.553 Secular pastoral counseling 00:57:30.013 Freud on Psychotherapy 01:00:04.744 Szasz on Psychotherapy 01:01:30.679 Religion, Rhetoric, Repression 01:02:58.525 Noble vs base rhetoric 01:03:35.776 Why is it so hard for people to understand Szasz? 01:05:13.137 Involuntary psychiatry and the insanity defense 01:06:48.050 How Szasz came to his thinking on psychiatry 01:07:09.955 Szasz as a child 01:10:12.714 Ignaz Semmelweis 01:14:13.690 Health vs ethics 01:15:51.900 Problems in living 01:21:49.341 Why I am not a health professional http://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/p/why-existential-psychotherapy-is-not.html 01:24:35.805 Freud, Anna Feud, Ernest Jones 01:27:42.847 Psychotherapy in UK needs no license 01:30:07.528 The religion of the state https://amzn.to/3nboTZI 01:31:53.675 Szasz in UK vs US 01:33:38.296 Will Szasz's ideas ever become mainstream? 01:34:50.283 Szasz said psychotherapy was finished in the US 01:36:31.687 How did Szasz remain so prolific? 01:37:45.213 Did Szasz still correspond in his old age? 01:39:42.916 Szasz's suicide https://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/p/thomas-szasz-obituary-anthony-stadlen.html?m=0 01:41:49.343 What is your most fond memory of Szasz? 01:44:22.120 Szasz and the meaning of life --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aaronolson/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aaronolson/support

L'Antipsichiatria è stato (ed è) un movimento culturale che ha paradossalmente contribuito a migliorare la psichiatria. Ma che cos'è l'antipsichiatria? Perché si è sviluppata? Che fine ha fatto ai giorni nostri?Vediamo che le discussioni su mente e cervello, su normalità e patologia o le infinite diatribe su gentica, natura e ambiente nella genesi e nelle definizione dei disturbi mentali, hanno sempre fatto parte della storia della psichiatria e, probabilmente, continueranno a farne parte ancora per un bel po’ in futuro. In ogni caso buona parte di queste discussioni, sicuramente, sono state alla base del più forte e celebre attacco "dall'esterno" alla psichiatria, negli anni Sessanta e Settanta, in quel grosso fiume di idee, posizioni politiche e di critiche che prese il nome di "movimento antipsichiatrico". Nei primi anni Sessanta, purtroppo, ci furono diversi scandali sugli ospedali psichiatrici e inoltre la pubblicazione di “Asylums” di Erving Goffman, sul concetto di istituzione totale, tutte queste cose avevano preparato il terreno per un'offensiva devastante nei confronti della psichiatria e degli psichiatri: non una critica su una qualche pratica o sui fallimenti del sistema, ma un vero e proprio assalto alla legittimità stessa della psichiatria e al suo diritto di esistere come parte della medicina.I principali protagonisti di questa fase storica iniziale dell'antipsichiatria degli anni '60 e '70 sono stati Thomas Szasz, Michel Foucault e Ronald David Laing, detto R.D. Laing.#antipsichiatria #psichiatriaIl Dr. Valerio Rosso, su questo canale YouTube, si dedica a produrre delle brevi lezioni di psichiatria rivolte ai pazienti, agli operatori della salute mentale, ai famigliari dei pazienti, agli studenti di medicina, agli specializzandi in psichiatria e a chiunque sia interessato alla salute mentale, alla psichiatria ed alle neuroscienze. ISCRIVETEVI AL MIO CANALE ► https://bit.ly/2zGIJorVi interessano la Psichiatria e le Neuroscienze? Bene, allora iscrivetevi a questo podcast, al mio canale YouTube e seguitemi sul web tramite il mio blog https://www.valeriorosso.comScoprite tutti i miei libri: https://bit.ly/2JdjocYScoprite la mia Musica: https://bit.ly/2JMqNjZVisitate anche il mio blog: https://www.valeriorosso.com

00:00:00.000 Daniel Krawisz https://twitter.com/danielkrawisz 00:00:51.045 People don't know the bottom line in bitcoin 00:01:59.657 The nature of success in bitcoin 00:02:38.457 Understanding economics is understanding success 00:03:54.667 Theory vs practice of success 00:04:34.721 Can we understand success by thinking about it? 00:05:33.429 Tradeoffs 00:07:59.852 Economics lets us look at trade-offs in an abstract way 00:08:11.536 Virtue ethics and economics https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/ 00:09:24.508 Courage and bitcoin 00:10:36.808 Austrian economics professors lack courage 00:13:14.829 Peter Schiff doesn't understand money https://twitter.com/peterschiff 00:13:22.680 Austrians only think of money as gold 00:14:03.690 What does success mean in bitcoin? 00:14:58.492 How does an entrepreneur join the bitcoin economy 00:16:43.746 Price versus value https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/forbesfinancecouncil/2018/01/04/the-important-differences-between-price-and-value/amp/ 00:19:42.183 Value is what ultimately happens 00:25:58.918 When you invest in Bitcoin you get access to future entrepreneurs 00:26:39.453 Marginal utility https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility 00:28:17.484 Diamonds versus water paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value 00:30:57.532 Unique insights about marginal utility and Austrian economics 00:33:24.543 Readability of the Austrian school of economics 00:33:37.982 Mises https://youtu.be/QwqnRYPcrl0 00:33:39.507 Hayek https://youtu.be/GTQnarzmTOc 00:33:54.910 Is economics a science? 00:34:46.057 Karl popper https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper 00:35:28.934 People make choices that maximize their own benefit 00:39:25.162 Maximize benefit versus achieve girls 00:41:15.368 Thomas Szasz https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz 00:45:27.511 BTC price vs value 00:49:22.548 Subjectivity of various coins 00:50:07.547 Subjective enjoyment of BTC 00:51:24.213 Consumer good versus higher-order good 00:55:59.926 Does the Austrian school use circular reasoning? 00:59:28.595 Form next time: profits and the entrepreneur 00:59:40.327 Socialist calculation problem --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aaronolson/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aaronolson/support

00:00:00.000 Daniel Krawisz https://twitter.com/danielkrawisz 00:00:51.045 People don't know the bottom line in bitcoin 00:01:59.657 The nature of success in bitcoin 00:02:38.457 Understanding economics is understanding success 00:03:54.667 Theory vs practice of success 00:04:34.721 Can we understand success by thinking about it? 00:05:33.429 Tradeoffs 00:07:59.852 Economics lets us look at trade-offs in an abstract way 00:08:11.536 Virtue ethics and economics https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/ 00:09:24.508 Courage and bitcoin 00:10:36.808 Austrian economics professors lack courage 00:13:14.829 Peter Schiff doesn't understand money https://twitter.com/peterschiff 00:13:22.680 Austrians only think of money as gold 00:14:03.690 What does success mean in bitcoin? 00:14:58.492 How does an entrepreneur join the bitcoin economy 00:16:43.746 Price versus value https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/forbesfinancecouncil/2018/01/04/the-important-differences-between-price-and-value/amp/ 00:19:42.183 Value is what ultimately happens 00:25:58.918 When you invest in Bitcoin you get access to future entrepreneurs 00:26:39.453 Marginal utility https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility 00:28:17.484 Diamonds versus water paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value 00:30:57.532 Unique insights about marginal utility and Austrian economics 00:33:24.543 Readability of the Austrian school of economics 00:33:37.982 Mises https://youtu.be/QwqnRYPcrl0 00:33:39.507 Hayek https://youtu.be/GTQnarzmTOc 00:33:54.910 Is economics a science? 00:34:46.057 Karl popper https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper 00:35:28.934 People make choices that maximize their own benefit 00:39:25.162 Maximize benefit versus achieve girls 00:41:15.368 Thomas Szasz https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz 00:45:27.511 BTC price vs value 00:49:22.548 Subjectivity of various coins 00:50:07.547 Subjective enjoyment of BTC 00:51:24.213 Consumer good versus higher-order good 00:55:59.926 Does the Austrian school use circular reasoning? 00:59:28.595 Form next time: profits and the entrepreneur 00:59:40.327 Socialist calculation problem --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aaronolson/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aaronolson/support

00:00:00.000 Daniel Krawisz https://twitter.com/danielkrawisz 00:00:51.045 People don't know the bottom line in bitcoin 00:01:59.657 The nature of success in bitcoin 00:02:38.457 Understanding economics is understanding success 00:03:54.667 Theory vs practice of success 00:04:34.721 Can we understand success by thinking about it? 00:05:33.429 Tradeoffs 00:07:59.852 Economics lets us look at trade-offs in an abstract way 00:08:11.536 Virtue ethics and economics https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/ 00:09:24.508 Courage and bitcoin 00:10:36.808 Austrian economics professors lack courage 00:13:14.829 Peter Schiff doesn't understand money https://twitter.com/peterschiff 00:13:22.680 Austrians only think of money as gold 00:14:03.690 What does success mean in bitcoin? 00:14:58.492 How does an entrepreneur join the bitcoin economy 00:16:43.746 Price versus value https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/forbesfinancecouncil/2018/01/04/the-important-differences-between-price-and-value/amp/ 00:19:42.183 Value is what ultimately happens 00:25:58.918 When you invest in Bitcoin you get access to future entrepreneurs 00:26:39.453 Marginal utility https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility 00:28:17.484 Diamonds versus water paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value 00:30:57.532 Unique insights about marginal utility and Austrian economics 00:33:24.543 Readability of the Austrian school of economics 00:33:37.982 Mises https://youtu.be/QwqnRYPcrl0 00:33:39.507 Hayek https://youtu.be/GTQnarzmTOc 00:33:54.910 Is economics a science? 00:34:46.057 Karl popper https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper 00:35:28.934 People make choices that maximize their own benefit 00:39:25.162 Maximize benefit versus achieve girls 00:41:15.368 Thomas Szasz https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz 00:45:27.511 BTC price vs value 00:49:22.548 Subjectivity of various coins 00:50:07.547 Subjective enjoyment of BTC 00:51:24.213 Consumer good versus higher order good 00:55:59.926 Does the Austrian school use circular reasoning? 00:59:28.595 Form next time: profits and the entrepreneur 00:59:40.327 Socialist calculation problem

Rabbi Kivelevitz begins the podcast by noting recent social events where contemporary notions of human rights are given precedence to traditional ideas of religious freedom. He particularly points to such causes as climate change and environmental consciousness as values which gained high visibility. Prof. Juni then addresses the religious, psychological, and psychiatric notions of morality and values. He points out that many modern thinkers have promoted the notion that science can be the basis for human values, in contrast to Locke and other philosophers whose notions of human rights were based on divine revelation (as incorporated into the U.S. Constitution). He also notes that psychiatry definitely views individuals who do not have a sense of right and wrong as defective. At the same time, Prof. Juni notes that even the psychiatric diagnostic formulation of psychopathy has been seen by some critics (notably Thomas Szasz) as reflecting political social enforcement tools rather than being medically based as such. Kivelevitz responds by discussing morality under the philosophical notion of natural law. He points out that the biblical stories of Cain and Abel and Sodom/Gomorrah hinge on values before they were codified in the Torah. He also cites underlying themes of morality throughout the Torah (particularly in citations from Isaiah) which are not linked to specific commandments, arguing that right and wrong have historically been viewed as intrinsic human notions. Juxtaposing that with the elevation of environmentalism (being green) to the more traditional moral values, Juni and Kivelevitz grapple with the chicken-egg problem --whether intuitive notions of right and wrong proceeded codified religious/social mandates versus the converse. Dr. Juni notes that notions of “should” or “ought” originate developmentally from parental injunctions which are then internalized, eventually becoming autonomous concepts which no longer link to external reinforcers.Outlining the perspective of the Rishonim (middle age Talmudic authorities of the first half of the 11thto 12thCentury) on the nature of morality, Kivelevitz argues that Western intelligentsia essentially hijack religious imperatives as they formulate universal values (such as democracy) bereft of their religious sources. He cites the contemporary prevalence of politico-social enforcers (exemplified by Cancel-Culture and PETA shaming strategies) as deplorable means of inculcating positive values. Doctor Samuel Juniis one of the foremost research psychologists in the world today.He has published groundbreaking original research in seventy different peer reviewed journals, and is cited continuously with respect by colleagues and experts in the field who have built on his theories and observations.Samuel Juni studied inYeshivas Chaim Berlinunder Rav Yitzchack Hutner, and in Yeshiva University as aTalmidof Rav Joseph Dov Soloveitchick.ProfessorJuni is a prominent member of theAssociation of Orthodox Jewish Scientists, and has regularly presented addresses to captivated audiences.Associated with NYU since 1979,Juni has served as Director of MA and PhD programs, all the while heading teams engaged in important research.Professor Juni's scholarship on aberrant behavior across the cultural, ethnic, and religious spectrum is founded onpsychometric methodologyand based on a psycho-dynamicpsychopathologyperspective.He is arguably the preeminent expert inDifferential Diagnostics, with each of his myriad studiesentailing parallel efforts in theory construction and empirical data collection from normative and clinical populations.Professor Juni created and directed NYU's Graduate Program in Tel Aviv titledCross-Cultural Group Dynamics in Stressful Environments.Based inYerushalayim, he collaborates with Israeli academic and mental health specialists in the study of dissonant factors and tensions in the Arab-Israeli conflict and those within the Orthodox Jewish community, while exploring personality challenges of second-generation Holocaust survivors.Below is a partial list of the journalsto which Professor Juni has contributed over 120 articles.Many are available on lineJournal of Forensic PsychologyJournal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma.International Review of VictimologyThe Journal of Nervous and Mental DiseaseInternational Forum of PsychoanalysisJournal of Personality AssessmentJournal of Abnormal PsychologyJournal of Psychoanalytic AnthropologyPsychophysiologyPsychology and Human DevelopmentJournal of Sex ResearchJournal of Psychology and JudaismContemporary Family TherapyAmerican Journal on AddictionsJournal of Criminal PsychologyMental Health, Religion & CultureAs Rosh Beis Medrash, Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz serves asRavandPosekfor the morningminyanat IDT.Hundreds of listeners around the globe look forward to his weeklyShiurinTshuvos and Poskim.Rav Kivelevitz is aMaggid ShiurforDirshu Internationalin Talmud and Halacha as well as a Dayan with theBeth Din of America.Please leave us a review or email us at ravkiv@gmail.comFor more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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Rabbi Kivelevitz begins the podcast by noting recent social events where contemporary notions of human rights are given precedence to traditional ideas of religious freedom. He particularly points to such causes as climate change and environmental consciousness as values which gained high visibility. Prof. Juni then addresses the religious, psychological, and psychiatric notions of morality and values. He points out that many modern thinkers have promoted the notion that science can be the basis for human values, in contrast to Locke and other philosophers whose notions of human rights were based on divine revelation (as incorporated into the U.S. Constitution). He also notes that psychiatry definitely views individuals who do not have a sense of right and wrong as defective. At the same time, Prof. Juni notes that even the psychiatric diagnostic formulation of psychopathy has been seen by some critics (notably Thomas Szasz) as reflecting political social enforcement tools rather than being medically based as such. Kivelevitz responds by discussing morality under the philosophical notion of natural law. He points out that the biblical stories of Cain and Abel and Sodom/Gomorrah hinge on values before they were codified in the Torah. He also cites underlying themes of morality throughout the Torah (particularly in citations from Isaiah) which are not linked to specific commandments, arguing that right and wrong have historically been viewed as intrinsic human notions. Juxtaposing that with the elevation of environmentalism (being green) to the more traditional moral values, Juni and Kivelevitz grapple with the chicken-egg problem -- whether intuitive notions of right and wrong proceeded codified religious/social mandates versus the converse. Dr. Juni notes that notions of “should” or “ought” originate developmentally from parental injunctions which are then internalized, eventually becoming autonomous concepts which no longer link to external reinforcers.Outlining the perspective of the Rishonim (middle age Talmudic authorities of the first half of the 11th to 12th Century) on the nature of morality, Kivelevitz argues that Western intelligentsia essentially hijack religious imperatives as they formulate universal values (such as democracy) bereft of their religious sources. He cites the contemporary prevalence of politico-social enforcers (exemplified by Cancel-Culture and PETA shaming strategies) as deplorable means of inculcating positive values. Doctor Samuel Juni is one of the foremost research psychologists in the world today.He has published groundbreaking original research in seventy different peer reviewed journals, and is cited continuously with respect by colleagues and experts in the field who have built on his theories and observations.Samuel Juni studied in Yeshivas Chaim Berlin under Rav Yitzchack Hutner, and in Yeshiva University as a Talmid of Rav Joseph Dov Soloveitchick.Professor Juni is a prominent member of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists, and has regularly presented addresses to captivated audiences.Associated with NYU since 1979, Juni has served as Director of MA and PhD programs, all the while heading teams engaged in important research.Professor Juni's scholarship on aberrant behavior across the cultural, ethnic, and religious spectrum is founded on psychometric methodology and based on a psycho-dynamic psychopathology perspective.He is arguably the preeminent expert in Differential Diagnostics, with each of his myriad studiesentailing parallel efforts in theory construction and empirical data collection from normative and clinical populations.Professor Juni created and directed NYU's Graduate Program in Tel Aviv titled Cross-Cultural Group Dynamics in Stressful Environments.Based in Yerushalayim, he collaborates with Israeli academic and mental health specialists in the study of dissonant factors and tensions in the Arab-Israeli conflict and those within the Orthodox Jewish community, while exploring personality challenges of second-generation Holocaust survivors.Below is a partial list of the journalsto which Professor Juni has contributed over 120 articles.Many are available on lineJournal of Forensic PsychologyJournal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma.International Review of VictimologyThe Journal of Nervous and Mental DiseaseInternational Forum of PsychoanalysisJournal of Personality AssessmentJournal of Abnormal PsychologyJournal of Psychoanalytic AnthropologyPsychophysiologyPsychology and Human DevelopmentJournal of Sex ResearchJournal of Psychology and JudaismContemporary Family TherapyAmerican Journal on AddictionsJournal of Criminal PsychologyMental Health, Religion & CultureAs Rosh Beis Medrash, Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz serves as Rav and Posek for the morning minyan at IDT.Hundreds of listeners around the globe look forward to his weekly Shiur in Tshuvos and Poskim.Rav Kivelevitz is a Maggid Shiur for Dirshu International in Talmud and Halacha as well as a Dayan with the Beth Din of America.Please leave us a review or email us at ravkiv@gmail.comFor more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Both discussants grapple with the intersection (or perhaps, clash) of psychiatry and Halacha in the mental competence domain. Rabbi Kivelevitz detailed how Mental Health experts are regularly consulted by Bet Din in halachic child custody case. Kivelevitz further relates that competence is a quandary in Talmudic discourse primarily in the arena of marriage/divorce. He enumerates the limited Talmudic behavioral criteria of incompetence: Sleeping in the cemetery, walking alone at night, destroying one's clothing, and losing important items.Dr. Juni and Kivelevitz exchange barbs about the degree of overlap between the medical Psychosis diagnosis and the lay notion of “crazy.” The Rabbi cautions against the labeling idiosyncrasies as mental disorders, seeing this as the basis for Halacha's reluctance to accept the psychiatric disqualification of individuals. Dr. Juni juxtaposes this stance to Thomas Szasz's decrying psychiatry as a political tool of suppression of the different.The salience of competence in Forensics concerns the construct of criminality regarding liability and punishment. Dr. Juni points out that different states have various criteria that may be used to disqualify voters, contrasting the equivocal rationale disqualifying felons with the more cogent disqualification of the mentally incompetent. He further points out that voting restriction refer solely to intellectual limitations, claiming there is no state which lists psychiatric incompetence as a criterion.The professor presents the forensic-legal premise behind disqualifying testimony of those with intellectual limitations. The assumption there is that the threat of punishment for possible perjury is the main deterrent which keeps witnesses honest. Consequently, those who do not adequately understand possible consequences of presenting false testimony cannot be assumed to feel compelled to tell the truth.Regarding testimony disqualification based on mental incompetence, Rabbi Kivelevitz explains that Halachic jurisprudence is quite similar to its civil counterpart in contemporary court systems, where testimony is not sees as an independent cause of legal consequence, but rather as one of many factors which are taken into account by judges. As such, testimony may be advisory at most, and its relevance is merely secondary and not central; more crucially: it is the judge who is directly responsible for the ensuing legal decision. Juni feels this to be a stark parallel to the rationale of the Electoral College in the American constitution, where voters are seeing as merely choosing representatives who are then responsible for decisions. In both cases,the precise criteria of competence (of witnesses or voters, respectively) therefore become less relevant.Donning his hat of expertise in the History of Scientific Philosophy, Dr. Juni argues that the notion that behaviors may be indicative (or symptomatic) of an underlying condition is not characteristic of systematic analytic thinking in Talmudic times. From the stance of presentism, Prof. Juni argues that the four Talmudic criteria of mental deficit seem to be based on the clear danger of certain behaviors – with some of the so-called clarity being based on superstition – and that the rationale there is that people who brazenly ignore personal safety concerns are obviously not thinking rationally.Accordingly, he challenges his co-host to explain whether the Talmudic criteria of incompetence harken back to a unitary conceptualization of intellectual deficit and – furthermore – whether such an underlying construct accommodates psychiatric disorder as well. Surprisingly, R. Kivelevitz does not disagree with Dr. Juni's implications, but argues that the halachic system explicitly empowers rabbinic scholars to extrapolate and expand text-based constructs in their application of narrower Torah-based laws and concepts. Kivelevitz recognizes the cryptic anachronistic terminology of the original halachic sources, but he asserts that paradigmatic shifts definitely occur periodically as Halacha is interpreted and applied to evolving social, cultural, and scientific changes in the world. He insists that these more modern adaptation are definitely anticipated by the primary Tana'im in the Mishna and prominent codifies in the 1200's.Describing Halacha as dynamic instead of static, R. Kivelevitz argues thatHalacha would otherwise be relegated to an irrelevant historical museum artifact.Both discussant seem to concur that bridging the psychiatric and halachic perspectives on mental and psychiatric competence are not necessarily incongruent, but they do not resolve the key question: What is the likelihood of constructing a connecting conceptual bridge between these the two worlds?Doctor Samuel Juniis one of the foremost research psychologists in the world today.He has published groundbreaking original research in seventy different peer reviewed journals, and is cited continuously with respect by colleagues and experts in the field who have built on his theories and observations.Samuel Juni studied inYeshivas Chaim Berlinunder Rav Yitzchack Hutner, and in Yeshiva University as aTalmidof Rav Joseph Dov Soloveitchick.ProfessorJuni is a prominent member of theAssociation of Orthodox Jewish Scientists, and has regularly presented addresses to captivated audiences.Associated with NYU since 1979,Juni has served as Director of MA and PhD programs, all the while heading teams engaged in important research.Professor Juni's scholarship on aberrant behavior across the cultural, ethnic, and religious spectrum is founded onpsychometric methodologyand based on a psycho-dynamicpsychopathologyperspective.He is arguably the preeminent expert inDifferential Diagnostics, with each of his myriad studiesentailing parallel efforts in theory construction and empirical data collection from normative and clinical populations.Professor Juni created and directed NYU's Graduate Program in Tel Aviv titledCross-Cultural Group Dynamics in Stressful Environments.Based inYerushalayim, he collaborates with Israeli academic and mental health specialists in the study of dissonant factors and tensions in the Arab-Israeli conflict and those within the Orthodox Jewish community, while exploring personality challenges of second-generation Holocaust survivors.Below is a partial list of the journalsto which Professor Juni has contributed over 120 articles.Many are available on lineJournal of Forensic PsychologyJournal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma.International Review of VictimologyThe Journal of Nervous and Mental DiseaseInternational Forum of PsychoanalysisJournal of Personality AssessmentJournal of Abnormal PsychologyJournal of Psychoanalytic AnthropologyPsychophysiologyPsychology and Human DevelopmentJournal of Sex ResearchJournal of Psychology and JudaismContemporary Family TherapyAmerican Journal on AddictionsJournal of Criminal PsychologyMental Health, Religion & CultureAs Rosh Beis Medrash, Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz serves asRavandPosekfor the morningminyanat IDT.Hundreds of listeners around the globe look forward to his weeklyShiurinTshuvos and Poskim.Rav Kivelevitz is aMaggid ShiurforDirshu Internationalin Talmud and Halacha as well as a Dayan with theBeth Din of America.Please leave us a review or email us at ravkiv@gmail.comFor more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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Both discussants grapple with the intersection (or perhaps, clash) of psychiatry and Halacha in the mental competence domain. Rabbi Kivelevitz detailed how Mental Health experts are regularly consulted by Bet Din in halachic child custody case. Kivelevitz further relates that competence is a quandary in Talmudic discourse primarily in the arena of marriage/divorce. He enumerates the limited Talmudic behavioral criteria of incompetence: Sleeping in the cemetery, walking alone at night, destroying one’s clothing, and losing important items. Dr. Juni and Kivelevitz exchange barbs about the degree of overlap between the medical Psychosis diagnosis and the lay notion of “crazy.” The Rabbi cautions against the labeling idiosyncrasies as mental disorders, seeing this as the basis for Halacha’s reluctance to accept the psychiatric disqualification of individuals. Dr. Juni juxtaposes this stance to Thomas Szasz’s decrying psychiatry as a political tool of suppression of the different. The salience of competence in Forensics concerns the construct of criminality regarding liability and punishment. Dr. Juni points out that different states have various criteria that may be used to disqualify voters, contrasting the equivocal rationale disqualifying felons with the more cogent disqualification of the mentally incompetent. He further points out that voting restriction refer solely to intellectual limitations, claiming there is no state which lists psychiatric incompetence as a criterion. The professor presents the forensic-legal premise behind disqualifying testimony of those with intellectual limitations. The assumption there is that the threat of punishment for possible perjury is the main deterrent which keeps witnesses honest. Consequently, those who do not adequately understand possible consequences of presenting false testimony cannot be assumed to feel compelled to tell the truth.Regarding testimony disqualification based on mental incompetence, Rabbi Kivelevitz explains that Halachic jurisprudence is quite similar to its civil counterpart in contemporary court systems, where testimony is not sees as an independent cause of legal consequence, but rather as one of many factors which are taken into account by judges. As such, testimony may be advisory at most, and its relevance is merely secondary and not central; more crucially: it is the judge who is directly responsible for the ensuing legal decision. Juni feels this to be a stark parallel to the rationale of the Electoral College in the American constitution, where voters are seeing as merely choosing representatives who are then responsible for decisions. In both cases, the precise criteria of competence (of witnesses or voters, respectively) therefore become less relevant. Donning his hat of expertise in the History of Scientific Philosophy, Dr. Juni argues that the notion that behaviors may be indicative (or symptomatic) of an underlying condition is not characteristic of systematic analytic thinking in Talmudic times. From the stance of presentism, Prof. Juni argues that the four Talmudic criteria of mental deficit seem to be based on the clear danger of certain behaviors – with some of the so-called clarity being based on superstition – and that the rationale there is that people who brazenly ignore personal safety concerns are obviously not thinking rationally. Accordingly, he challenges his co-host to explain whether the Talmudic criteria of incompetence harken back to a unitary conceptualization of intellectual deficit and – furthermore – whether such an underlying construct accommodates psychiatric disorder as well. Surprisingly, R. Kivelevitz does not disagree with Dr. Juni’s implications, but argues that the halachic system explicitly empowers rabbinic scholars to extrapolate and expand text-based constructs in their application of narrower Torah-based laws and concepts. Kivelevitz recognizes the cryptic anachronistic terminology of the original halachic sources, but he asserts that paradigmatic shifts definitely occur periodically as Halacha is interpreted and applied to evolving social, cultural, and scientific changes in the world. He insists that these more modern adaptation are definitely anticipated by the primary Tana’im in the Mishna and prominent codifies in the 1200’s. Describing Halacha as dynamic instead of static, R. Kivelevitz argues that Halacha would otherwise be relegated to an irrelevant historical museum artifact. Both discussant seem to concur that bridging the psychiatric and halachic perspectives on mental and psychiatric competence are not necessarily incongruent, but they do not resolve the key question: What is the likelihood of constructing a connecting conceptual bridge between these the two worlds? Doctor Samuel Juni is one of the foremost research psychologists in the world today.He has published groundbreaking original research in seventy different peer reviewed journals, and is cited continuously with respect by colleagues and experts in the field who have built on his theories and observations.Samuel Juni studied in Yeshivas Chaim Berlin under Rav Yitzchack Hutner, and in Yeshiva University as a Talmid of Rav Joseph Dov Soloveitchick.Professor Juni is a prominent member of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists, and has regularly presented addresses to captivated audiences.Associated with NYU since 1979, Juni has served as Director of MA and PhD programs, all the while heading teams engaged in important research.Professor Juni's scholarship on aberrant behavior across the cultural, ethnic, and religious spectrum is founded on psychometric methodology and based on a psycho-dynamic psychopathology perspective.He is arguably the preeminent expert in Differential Diagnostics, with each of his myriad studiesentailing parallel efforts in theory construction and empirical data collection from normative and clinical populations.Professor Juni created and directed NYU's Graduate Program in Tel Aviv titled Cross-Cultural Group Dynamics in Stressful Environments.Based in Yerushalayim, he collaborates with Israeli academic and mental health specialists in the study of dissonant factors and tensions in the Arab-Israeli conflict and those within the Orthodox Jewish community, while exploring personality challenges of second-generation Holocaust survivors.Below is a partial list of the journalsto which Professor Juni has contributed over 120 articles.Many are available on lineJournal of Forensic PsychologyJournal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma.International Review of VictimologyThe Journal of Nervous and Mental DiseaseInternational Forum of PsychoanalysisJournal of Personality AssessmentJournal of Abnormal PsychologyJournal of Psychoanalytic AnthropologyPsychophysiologyPsychology and Human DevelopmentJournal of Sex ResearchJournal of Psychology and JudaismContemporary Family TherapyAmerican Journal on AddictionsJournal of Criminal PsychologyMental Health, Religion & CultureAs Rosh Beis Medrash, Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz serves as Rav and Posek for the morning minyan at IDT.Hundreds of listeners around the globe look forward to his weekly Shiur in Tshuvos and Poskim.Rav Kivelevitz is a Maggid Shiur for Dirshu International in Talmud and Halacha as well as a Dayan with the Beth Din of America.Please leave us a review or email us at ravkiv@gmail.comFor more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Christofer and physicist Sam Kuypers speak about the importance of understanding the problem situation when explaining any knowledge creating system in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss determinism and evolution, reductionism, eastern philosophy and enlightenment, phenomenological self-representation, if dinosaurs were people, Pickle Rick, knowledge in the multiverse, Thomas Szasz and mental illness, the paradox of discussion, and other related topics.Sam Kuypers, known as Crit_Rat on Twitter, is a DPhil student in physics at the University of Oxford. He researches foundational issues in quantum theory and, besides physics, is mainly interested in the philosophy of science, as his twitter-handle suggests (@Crit_Rat).Support the podcast at:patreon.com/doexplain(monthly)ko-fi.com/doexplain(one-time)Find Christofer on Twitter:https://twitter.com/ReachChristofer

Libertarian writer David Ramsay Steele joins Bob for a fun tour of some essays from his collection, "The Mystery of Fascism". Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: The YouTube version of this episode.David Ramsay Steele's books The Mystery of Fascism and From Marx to Mises.Bryan Caplan's article endorsing the Thomas Szasz approach to mental illness.Comedian Bill Hicks on the JFK assassination. For more information, see BobMurphyShow.com. The Bob Murphy Show is also available on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, and via RSS.

Sean Rife and I discuss the idea of the Total Institution, as originally described by sociologist Erving Goffman. We examine several Total Institutions in detail, and touch on the connection these have with religion and purity cults. We also discuss Thomas Szasz and his ideas about mental illness and the ways in which entire societies can come to resemble a total institution. Related links: Sean Rife's homepage Erving Goffman's book Asylums. Thomas Szasz: The Myth of Mental Illness. Statistics Blog: Dumb Arguments by Smart People. Jonathan Haidt's Moral Foundations. Scite.ai citation analysis.

David and Tamler explore Thomas Szasz’s provocative and still relevant 1961 book “The Myth of Mental Illness,” the topic selected by our beloved Patreon supporters. When we think of mental disorders as “diseases,” are we making a category mistake? Are we turning ordinary “problems in living” into pathologies that must be treated (with pills or psychoanalysis)? Does this model rob us of our autonomy in direct or indirect ways? Plus, with VBW 200 only 2 episodes away we give our top 3 dream guests, and David dons his punditry cap to break down the first presidential debate, which already seems like six months ago.   

Libertarian writer David Ramsay Steele joins Bob for a fun tour of some essays from his collection, *The Mystery of Fascism*. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: The YouTube version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWyNmorCtPk) of this interview. David Ramsay Steele's books From Marx to Mises (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0875484492/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=consultingbyr-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0875484492&linkId=dbd7d162d408d69d903aa8f5166cbc13). #CommissionsEarned (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Bryan Caplan's article (http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/pdfs/szasz.pdf) endorsing the Thomas Szasz approach to mental illness. Comedian Bill Hicks on the JFK assassination (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LcvNM7oc7k). Help support (http://bobmurphyshow.com/contribute) the Bob Murphy Show. The audio production for this episode was provided by Podsworth Media (http://podsworth.com/).

Witches, Episode #1 of 4. In 1973, two professors active in the women’s health movement wrote a pamphlet for women to read in the consciousness-raising reading groups. The pamphlet, inspired by Our Bodies, Ourselves, looked to history to explain how women had been marginalized in their own healthcare. Women used to be an important part of the medical profession as midwives, they argued -- but the midwives were forced out of practice because they were so often considered witches and persecuted by the patriarchy in the form of the Catholic Church. The idea that midwives were regularly accused of witchcraft seemed so obvious that it quickly became taken as fact. There was only one problem: it wasn’t true. In this episode, we follow the convoluted origin story of the myth of the midwife-witch. Get the full transcript at digpodcast.org Bibliography & Further Reading Samuel S. Thomas, “Early Modern Midwifery: Splitting the Profession, Connecting the History,” The Journal of Social History 43 (2009), 115-138. Thomas Forbes, “Midwifery and Witchcraft,” The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 17 (1962), 1966. David Harley, “Historians as Demonologists: The Myth of the Midwife-Witch,” in Brian P. Levack, Witchcraft, Healing, and Popular Diseases: New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology (Florence: Taylor and Francis Group, 2001) Leigh Whaley, Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 Ritta Jo Horsley and Richard Horsley, “Who Were the Witches? Wise Women, Midwives, and the European Witch Hunts,” Women in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature & Culture 3 (1986), Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre English, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1970), Monica Green, “Women’s Medical Practice and Health Care in Medieval Europe,” Signs 14 (1989), 434-473. Margaret Murray, The Witch Cult in Western Europe (London: Oxford University Press, 1921) Margaret Murray, The God of the Witches (London: Oxford University Press, 1931) Thomas Szasz, The Manufacture of Mental Illness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1970) Jacqueline Simpson, “Margaret Murray: Who Believed Her, and Why?” Folklore 105 (1994) Jennifer Nelson, More than Medicine: A History of the Feminist Women’s Health Movement (New York: New York University Press, 2015). Diane Purkiss, The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth Century Representations (London: Taylor and Francis Group, 1996). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Was there Mental Illness in the ancient world? What did people think about Suicide or Schizophrenia? How did the philosophies of Epicurus or Hippocrates help? And what can this teach us about Mental Illness today? Michael Fontaine, Professor and Associate Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education, The Department of Classics, Cornell University, New York treats us to a new perspective on the extremes of the human condition. For more information about Classical Wisdom's Podcast Classical Wisdom Speaks, please check out our website at: http://classicalwisdom.comInterested in learning more? Get a FREE E-book on "Money, Gold and the End of an Empire" Here: https://classicalwisdom.com/free-e-book-money-gold-endofanempire/Get our Latest Magazine - dedicated to Statesmen - with our Classical Wisdom Litterae Magazine subscription Here: https://classicalwisdom.com/product/classical-wisdom-litterae-magazine-subscription/Here are some links to references mentioned on the podcast:1. The paper Michael gave at the American Psychiatric Association about Thomas Szasz and Epicurus (on mental illness): https://www.madinamerica.com/2014/08/religious-psychiatric-atheism-success-epicurus-failure-thomas-szasz/2. A long review essay on “Mental Disorders in the Classical World.” (It’s all about classics, and a good overview to how Michael approaches mental illness): https://www.madinamerica.com/2015/10/mental-disorders-in-the-classical-world-a-book-review/3. 2013. ‘On Being Sane in an Insane Place—The Rosenhan Experiment in the Laboratory of Plautus’ Epidamnus,’ Current Psychology 32, 348-365. – This paper is about Plautus’ Menaechmi (the twins separated at birth).4. 2017. ‘Schizophrenia, then and now: The Libation Bearers of Aeschylus,’ in J.A. Schaler, H.Z. Lothane, and R.E. Vatz, eds., Thomas S. Szasz: The Man and his Ideas. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, pp. 169-193. – This was summarized in the podcast.5. The world's first Lobotomy: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ancient-insights/202002/did-psychosurgery-start-out-joke6. You can get Michael's latest books, How to Drink: A Classical Guide to the Art of Imbibing here: https://tinyurl.com/y6stsjjkas well as The Pig War: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1732475075***Update from Michael: Also, since we did our podcast, a bombshell of a book came out that casts doubt on some of what I say about the modern experiment in article #3 down below. You can read my review of it in Psychology Today here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ancient-insights/201911/the-big-lie-psychiatry***The interview initially took place in August 2019.

Keith Preston of attackthesystem.com joins Antony Sammeroff and Tom Laird again on episode 150 of the Scottish Liberty Podcast to discuss Covid-19 Corona Virus, anarchism and the Therapeutic State as described by Thomas Szasz. Support Us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scottishlibertypodcast

Cliff Maloney is the president of Young Americans for Liberty. He joins us to discuss current events as well as the heavy lifting that young Americans are facing in regards to perpetuating liberty in a time of crisis. When we think of champions of liberty, not many people are familiar with the name of Dr. Thomas Szasz. James Bovard has a timely tribute to this great man on what would have been his 100th birthday. Most of us would agree that rights are a good thing. Paul Rosenberg says, beware, they can also be used as a tool to destroy us. Who should decide when the coronavirus shutdown is over, the people or the bureaucracy? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/loving-liberty/support

Scott is a graduate of the University of Michigan, a musician and living in Spain as an educator. We will discuss our mutual interest in Szasz's ideas and how we both became convinced that the ideology of psychiatry is based on an unscientific, illogical and toxic set of ideas in which a moral judgment poses as a medical diagnosis.  Szasz, Thomas. 1974. "The Myth of Mental Illness, rev. ed. New York, Harper and Row Simon, Laurence 2019 "Psycho"therapy" and the Stories We LIve By, Self Published through BookBaby.com Both available at Amazon.com, BN.com store.bookbaby.com/book/psychotherapy-and-the-stories-we-live-by  

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Hay un psiquiatra (Thomas Szasz) que dice eso: no existe la enfermedad mental. La afirmación puede malinterpretarse fácilmente, sobre todo si uno tiene problemas en la vida a los que bien podría poner el rótulo. Acá tratamos de entender y reconstruir el argumento y algunas implicaciones. Si alguna idea queda suelta, está equivocada o necesita aclaración, en magicmarkers.tv/podcast pueden escribirnos. Cosas que mencionamos y tienen enlace: *** El mito de la enfermedad mental de Thomas Szasz. https://bit.ly/2qtIBqC *** Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental de Anne Harrington https://bit.ly/2QyHil0 *** Lo que no tiene nombre de Piedad Bonnett https://bit.ly/35ho8UG --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/brujaysantiago/message

Join the SB team as we talk about the “myth of mental illness,” a phrase coined by psychiatrist and medical sociologist, Thomas Szasz. Today we will be comparing the ideas of mental health and illness as “problems with living” to the medical model. As sociologists we are not anti-medicine or anti-doctor, but we do feel it necessary to use our perspective breakdown the essence of psychological functioning and how the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a gatekeeper. Hope you enjoy this lively conversation, and please subscribe and give us a rating!

I offer today's broadcast to Kelli and the millions of others who mistakenly beleive that their hard to understand and painful patterns of behavior have something to do with mental illnesses, chemical imbalances, mental health and require something called treatments involving either drugs, talking or both. I will try and make clear to Kelly and the millions who believe as she does that she and they are caught in a number of traps created by language, particularly that which derives from the illogical, authoritarian and wholly unscientific language of Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology and other fields that follow mainstream Psychiatry. I will suggest, based upon what Kelly writes about how she currently lives that were she to fully avoid the language that  enfolds her she would feel even more than she does at present to be "a person who belongs to the world." (Final sentence of her article.) I will suggest some books for Kelly and the millions who struggle as she does that will include Thomas Szasz' "The Myth of Mental Illness" and my own "Psycho "therapy" and The Stories We Live By" store.bookbaby.com/book/psychotherapy-and-the-stories-we-live-by    

Dr. Espi teaches and practices medicine in the Psychiatry Department of Rush Medical College in Chicago.  He has more than 20 peer reviewed publications on many aspects of Psychiatry including:  akathisia due to drugs, metabolic syndrome, inflammation, dissociative symptoms, the cinema, and the history of Psychiatry.  He is the founding member of the Journal of Humanistic Psychiatry and the author of the book Monsters, Demons and Psychopaths:  Psychiatry and Horror Film.  In this book he studies society's perception of mental illness through horror film according to its historical context.  His major interests are philosophy, art history, rock music, gastronomy and cinema and has found Chicago a good niche to combine all these interests.   In this episode, we discuss:  Magic, Witchcraft, Demons, the Devil, Magical Practices in the Catholic rituals, the Inquisition (and especially the Spanish Inquisition, which no-one expects:-)), the Trier trials, the Salem Witch trials, ergotism, Belladonna, Toad medicine (5MeO-Dmt), Jumilla wine, Grenache, Rioja, and Monastrell wines, the unreliability of evidence at the Witch-trials, especially "spectral evidence," scapegoating against women, and other marginalized groups, Stanislav Grof, spiritual emergence vs. psychosis, the roots of discrimination against mental illness and its continuation in modern psychiatry, the anti-psychiatry movement, Thomas Szasz, Michel Foucault, the silent movie "Haxan", werewolves, vampires, zombies, and other monsters, Horror movies, Psychedelics, hysteria and much more. Dr. Espi's Professional Website can be found here:   https://www.rushu.rush.edu/faculty/fernando-espi-forcen-md-phd The Journal of Humanist Psychiatry can be found here: http://www.humanisticpsychiatry.com/ Dr. Espi's YouTube channel can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJhYmcLASwBUBl7h4Yq6xyQ  

In the first installment of their mental illness denialism series, Dylan, Brent, and Forrest cover the psychiatric landscape in the 1950s that gave birth to the Bible of anti-psychiatry: The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz. Along the way they debunk the more common Szaszian arguments and discuss their own personal experiences with mental illness.

Brief discussion about mental illness and the idea of non-dualism. Can mental illness exist apart from physical processes? I will briefly talk about Thomas Szasz's book The Myth of Mental Illness. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johnspaldingpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnspaldingpodcast/support

I hope you've enjoyed these episode on Common Therapist Errors, and I apologize in advance if any of the ideas I'm proposing in today's podcast seem "over the top" or simply off base. I teach with great passion, but I'm not always right! Fortunately, my esteemed host, Dr. Fabrice Nye, challenges me quite a bit, and he is almost always right. Hopefully, you will enjoy our dialogue and the chance to think a bit more critically about psychotherapy.  And when you find I've made an error, or said something offensive to you, I hope you will put it in perspective. I'm kind of a mixed bag, to be honest. I believe I have a lot to offer, but I've got tons of flaws, too! I fight my flaws, but not always with success. For better or worse, here are today's therapist errors!  1. Confusing psychoeducation with psychotherapy. Pyschoeducation can be helpful, but it's rarely curative. Effective psychotherapy requires much more. Here are some examples of helpful psychoeducation: Teaching people about the list of ten common cognitive distortions from David's book, Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Teaching people how to pinpoint their negative feelings at any moment in time using David's Daily Mood Log Teaching people that your thoughts, and not external events, create all of your positive and negative feelings Explaining the Five Secrets of Effective Communication etc. etc. etc. Psychotherapy means helping people CHANGE the way they think and feel, or helping people develop more loving and satisfying personal relationships. That requires a great deal of therapeutic skill and hard work on the part of the patient--during sessions and between sessions. it also requires a warm and trusting therapeutic alliance. 2. Belief in Gurus. Believing that the individuals who start schools of therapy are nice and well-balanced individuals! David describes conversations with the late Albert Ellis, PhD, who argued that many, and arguably most, are incredibly narcissistic and manipulative. Sometimes, individuals who appear incredibly charming and brilliant and inspiring have a dark underbellies they are keeping hidden! David argues that it might be more desirable to have a science-based, data driven, systematic approach to psychotherapy, as opposed to a field dominated by therapeutic schools, which sometimes function almost like competing cults. 3. Reverse / “backward” statistical reasoning. Most therapists who work with patients with Borderline Personality Disorder as well as Multiple Personality Disorder, as well as patients who are prone to violence, believe that childhood trauma, deprivation, or abuse is the main cause of these problems. They believe this because patients with those diagnoses frequently describe traumatic experiences in their past, so they assume those experiences caused the patient's disorder.  This is a statistical and conceptual error, because most individuals who experienced traumas when growing up never developed Borderline Personality Disorder or Multiple Personality Disorder. This is not to say that traumas are unimportant—traumatic experiences at any phase of life can be very damaging. What this DOES mean is that most psychiatric problems have other causes.  What are those other causes? They are not known, for the most part. This information is not easy for many people to accept. For example, I just found this statement on WebMd: “As many as 99% of individuals who develop dissociative disorders have recognized personal histories of recurring, overpowering, and often life-threatening disturbances at a sensitive developmental stage of childhood (usually before age 9)." Here’s another web comment: “Several studies have shown that a diagnosis of BPD is associated with child abuse and neglect more than any other personality disorders [7, 8], with a range between 30 and 90% in BPD patients [7, 9].” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5472954/ The same source also stated that: “. . . Widom and collaborators [12] followed 500 children who had suffered physical and sexual abuse and neglect and 396 matched controls, and they observed that . . . the presence of a risk factor, such as adverse childhood events, was not necessary or sufficient to explain the reason why some individuals developed BPD symptoms in adulthood, whereas others did not.” If you are interested, you can find the references to these studies at the end of this blog. Here is one way of understanding this error. Childhood sexual abuse is far more common in the population (typically estimated in the range of 15% of men and 25% of women), and if you add childhood trauma or neglect, these percentages in crease even more. AT the same time, the incidence of Borderline Personality Disorder or Dissociative Identity Disorder are typically estimated around 1%. That means that most individuals who have experienced childhood sexual abuse, neglect or trauma do not develop these disorders.  I do not in any way mean to minimize the importance of trauma, sexual abuse or neglect. The impact of these experiences can be profound and can include physical as well as psychological problems. My only point, and perhaps it is an overly humble one, is that we simply do not know the causes of most (or any) of the problems listed in the DSM5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association.) I think it is great that we have many treatments that can be helpful and effective for individuals, but it might not further our cause to jump to conclusions about the causes of things based on what we see before our eyes when we are doing clinical work. Sometimes, seeing is believing, but sometimes, our "seeing" can be misleading.  I hope I have not offended anyone!  4. Believing in Mental Disorders. Do the so-called Mental Disorders” described in the DSM actually exist? Or are they simply the fabrics of our imagination? Years ago, Thomas Szasz, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, wrote a popular and controversial book called The Myth of Mental Illness, in which he claimed that mental disorders do not exist. David argues that Szasz was only partially right. Most of what we see in the DSM are simply arbitrary constructs, and not real "disorders." For example, most people worry about things from time to time. Worrying is unpleasant but normal, and there is a wide range of worrying in the population. Some people rarely worry, and some people almost constantly worry, and most of us are in-between.  The American Psychiatric Association will take the group who worry the most, and give them a label of "Generalized Anxiety Disorder." But there is no such "thing." It is not a real brain disorder. The same problem afflicts a great many of the so-called "disorders" listed in the DSM. These are problems, not brain disorders. However, there are several real brain disorders, such as schizophrenia, Bipolar I Manic-Depressive Illness, and Alzheimer's Disease. These are disorders of brain tissue or wiring, and are not simply variants of normal human behavior or experience.  When I work with individuals, I measure the severity of symptoms and say things like this, "Jim, I can see you tend to be very shy (or depressed or anxious, or whatever.)" I do not say, "Jim, I want you to know you have a brain disorder called "Social Anxiety Disorder," because I feel that is potentially upsetting to the patient and not really "true." In addition, shyness can be fairly easily treated in most cases without medication. Most non-MD therapists do not make the mistake of confusing symptoms with "mental disorders." It seems likely to me (David) that psychiatrist are more likely to make this mental error, since psychiatry, as I understand it, is emulating the medical model of diagnosis followed by medication treatment or some other kind of biological intervention.  5. Ignoring a Diagnostic Evaluation. Most therapists skip a formal diagnostic evaluation, because the DSM is so difficult to work with, and since a formal diagnostic interview can be frustrating and time-consuming. And, as I pointed out in my discussion of the previous error, it is somewhat misleading to tell patients they have mental disorders, like "Generalized Anxiety Disorder" or "Social Anxiety Disorder," when, in reality, the patient is simply shy or has a tendency to worry a lot. And yet, there can be significant negative consequences of NOT doing a thorough initial evaluation of the patient's many symptoms, since you can easily overlook something important, like drug or alcohol abuse, or suicidal or violent urges in new patient. The EASY Diagnostic Survey provides a fresh and helpful option. patients can complete it on their own, between sessions, and it automatically diagnoses more than 50 of the most common "disorders" in DSM5. Then the therapist can review it during a session and assign the diagnoses in less than ten minutes in most cases. This provides the therapist with an accurate map of the patient's problems. You do not have to think of them as a variety of "mental disorders," but rather as areas of suffering and difficulty. I don't tell myself I'm treating "Generalized Anxiety Disorder," but rather treating a human being who is troubled by constant and excessive worrying--and fortunately, that is very treatable! Therapists who are interest in purchasing a license to use the EASY in your clinical work can check this link.   

Thomas Szasz presents his views on why libertarians should care more about psychiatric practices. Shows why psychiatric practices are a direct assault against the libertarian principle of non-aggression. Szasz argues that you have a civil right to believe crazy things. Towards the end of the video, he takes questions from the audience which help clarify his views. Originally posted at https://www.cato.org/multimedia/events/libertarian-principles-psychiatric-practices-are-they-compatible

What did Thomas Szasz mean when he said there is no such thing as psychotherapy?

This week, we interview Professor Michael Fontaine. Michael is Professor of Classics and Associate Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education at Cornell University in New York. He regularly consults on Latin for museums, institutions, dealers, and collectors, having exposed forgery in Renaissance and Dutch Golden Age paintings. In 2016 he received the Thomas S. Szasz Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Cause of Civil Liberties. In the episode we discuss: How Michael came to be a Professor of Classics and Literature. How studying the ancient world helps us to understand what the first scientists thought about mental or emotional distress. The first use of the phrase ‘psychiatric ward’ which can be found at the Library of Alexandria in Northern Egypt. That the phrase that ultimately became the word ‘Psychiatry’ in ancient times actually meant a “Healing Place for the Soul” and is inscribed above library entrances even today (ΨΥΧΗΣ ΙΑΤΡΕΙΟΝ or Psyches iatreion). The links between the Rosenhan experiment and a comedic play written 2,200 years ago by the ancient Roman playwright T. Maccius Plautus. That, in the ancient world, there was no long term incarceration in prisons or asylums. The relationship between the Hippocratic/medical model (the humoral theory) and the Epicurean model of mental or emotional distress. That, in the ancient world, depression didn’t exist, and that the solutions for unhappiness were based in the community or in Philosophy. That about 1700 years ago, the Roman Empire entered a state of decline and it became mandatory to become Christian and during this time the philosophical view of mental distress died away to be overtaken by a supernatural understanding. Some of the similarities between the Epicurean model and the work of Thomas Szasz. How Michael came to know and discuss some of these matters with Thomas Szasz and, following his suicide in 2012, presented an academic paper to the American Psychiatric Association on Thomas Szasz’ legacy. The statistics that show that one in every four women around middle age in the US is taking an antidepressant. Michael’s essay on Schizophrenia in the ancient world. The distinction between the causes of, and the reasons for, our behaviour. Ron Leifer having his career ruined because of his support for the ideas of Thomas Szasz. A poem from 2,100 years ago by the Latin poet Catullus, that deals with transgender identity, even though it is generally believed that gender identity issues are a recent phenomenon (last 50 years or so). How Greek Tragedy can help us understand the world, particularly those of Euripides such as Medea Relevant links: On Being Sane in an Insane Place—The Rosenhan Experiment in the Laboratory of Plautus’ Epidamnus On Religious and Psychiatric Atheism: The Success of Epicurus, the Failure of Thomas Szasz Thomas Szasz Mental Disorders in the Classical World (A Review) Schizophrenia in the Golden Ass What Do the DSM, Elvis Presley, and Dionysus Have in Common? To get in touch with us email: podcasts@madinamerica.com © Mad in America 2018

My chosen profession has been in the so-called mental health field but all that was ever discussed by those in my profession were so called mental illnesses which later in my career were redefined as mental disorders. I have long argued, along with Thomas Szasz and numerous others, that mental illnesses are metaphorical in nature and are rarely, if ever, defined in terms of real medical problems. Therefore the terms mental illness and disorders are in reality negative moral judgments of unwanted, poorly understood patterns of how individuals think, act, express emotion or otherwise adapt to the total circumstances of their lives. Mental illnesses are adaptations unwanted and deemed inferior and harmful by the individuals themselves or by families, friends or society at large. How then might we define mental health? I suggest that actually we see the so-called mentally healthy as individuals whose adaptations to life are wanted, accepted, perhaps admired and therefore represent positive moral judgments in their own eyes and the eyes of those with whom they interact. Any individual might be simultaneously judged to be mentally ill or healthy by themselves, family members or the society in which they are embedded. I will discuss the endless difficulties of my being a professional called on to help individuals morally judged to be mentally ill or disordered especially after I decided that my role was not only "reduce or eliminate their illnesses" but help them achieve "mental health" and that my professional role had little, if nothing to do with medicine!  

I talk with Jeffrey Schaler about his new book, Thomas Szasz: The Man and His Ideas (http://amzn.to/2wvEHyO). Thomas Szasz was an iconoclastic psychiatrist who did not believe in the concept of mental illness. He saw emotional distress as, "problems of living". We talk about Szasz and what he meant when he wrote that he did not believe in "mental illness". Chapters: 00:00:00 Introduction http://www.schaler.net/ 00:05:22 Responsibility vs Freedom  00:12:16 Szasz's definition of mental illness  00:18:28 Non-coercive psychiatry  00:29:09 Freedom vs Unfreedom  00:38:17 Dealing with emotional difficulties  00:41:34 Favorite memory of Szasz --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aaronolson/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aaronolson/support

I talk with Jeffrey Schaler about his new book, Thomas Szasz: The Man and His Ideas (http://amzn.to/2wvEHyO). Thomas Szasz was an iconoclastic psychiatrist who did not believe in the concept of mental illness. He saw emotional distress as, "problems of living". We talk about Szasz and what he meant when he wrote that he did not believe in "mental illness". Chapters: 00:00:00 Introduction http://www.schaler.net/ 00:05:22 Responsibility vs Freedom  00:12:16 Szasz's definition of mental illness  00:18:28 Non-coercive psychiatry  00:29:09 Freedom vs Unfreedom  00:38:17 Dealing with emotional difficulties  00:41:34 Favorite memory of Szasz --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aaronolson/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aaronolson/support

I talk with Jeffery Schaler about his new book, Thomas Szasz: The Man and His Ideas (http://amzn.to/2wvEHyO). Thomas Szasz was an iconoclastic psychiatrist who did not believe in the concept of mental illness. He saw emotional distress as, "problems of living". We talk about Szasz and what he meant when he wrote that he did not believe in "mental illness".

Al Lubel comes over to discuss philosophy from Thomas Szasz but what happens is an incident from 17 years ago resurfaces that has kept the two apart all these years without Danny even remembering it happened. It's a great talk with one of the all time great comedy minds.  Happy Holidays & Enjoy!

1-20-15 NWMOSTATE JONATHAN HARNISCH: GUEST SPEAKER - Jonathan Harnisch Media Blog http://www.jhpage.com/1/post/2015/01/1-20-15-nwmostate-jonathan-harnisch-guest-speaker.html Class Agenda: • When should someone seek assistance? • What is a diagnosis? • When do we diagnose? • How come Thomas Szasz, (Psychiatrist; 1920-2012) says society creates abnormality? • (Ironically, while Szasz's political position (that people should not be locked up just for being different) prevailed, many in the psychological and psychiatric professions rejected his theoretical position (that there is no such thing as mental illness). For example, Kety (1974), responding to Szasz's statement that mental illness is a myth, collected all the evidence for genetic influences on schizophrenia. He concluded, "If schizophrenia is a myth, it is a myth with a strong genetic component" (p.961, “The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct,” 1961.) • What are some of the historical treatments of mental illness? • Who have been some of the first early names for writing treatments? Guest Speaker: Jonathan Harnisch, Author of Jonathan Harnisch: An Alibiography (2014), Second Alibi: The Banality of Life (2014), Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia (2014), and Lover in the Nobody (2014); Film Producer and Screenwriter of On the Bus, all of which are studied in the genre of mental illness and schizophrenia, in particular, based on Harnisch's personal experiences, and also being taught by Dr Edwards, PhD-MBA, at Northwest Missouri State University, in Maryville, MO. Jonathan Harnisch Literature on Amazon: amazon.com/Jonathan-Harnisch/e/B00K9LI9E4 Northwest Missouri State University is a public institution that was founded in 1905. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 5,542, its setting is rural, and the campus size is 370 acres. It utilizes a trimester-based academic calendar. Northwest Missouri State University's ranking in the 2015 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Universities (Midwest), 80. Its in-state tuition and fees are $8,156 (2014-15); out-of-state tuition and fees are $14,407 (2014-15). (Source: U.S. News & World Report.) Thank you for taking the time and interest in mental health education and advocacy. More to come; it has been a true pleasure to be a guest with the 2 featured back-to-back classes; the first day of the trimester, had not been recorded properly. This recording on January 20, 2015, is the second class day of the trimester; Abnormal Psych. Please spread the word for mental health awareness. Next up will include a Q&A with author, Jonathan Harnisch, and material on PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), definition, symptoms, and so forth. Thank you,  — Jonathan Harnisch, Twitter: twitter.com/jwharnisch

If madness isn’t like other illnesses, what is it? Should psychiatry have the power of legal coercion? How can the legacy of Thomas Szasz inform new ways of helping people? Tomi Gomory, associate professor of social work at Florida State University and co-author of Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs, explores thinking beyond the […]

Guest: Michael Cerullo, MD Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Although Tom Cruise is the most well known crusader against psychiatry, the movement originated with Thomas Szasz and others. How best can we deal with their ideas and help our patients get the psychiatric care that they may need? Dr. Michael Cerullo discusses the antipsychiatry movement with host Dr. Leslie Lundt.

A discussion of some of psychiatrist Thomas Szasz' ideas in detail. How to ask intelligent questions of your shrink.

A discussion with the world famous psychiatric critic and author of "The Myth of Mental Illness" as well as dozens of other important books on psychiatry. We will be joined by psychologist Louis Wynne

„Einsicht“ erzeugt Blindheit: wenn die Lösung zum Problem wird. 28.07.1994 3. Evolution of Psychotherapy 27. - 31.7.1994 Hamburg Die 3. Evolution of Psychotherapy Konferenz in Hamburg war ein herausragendes Ereignis. Hier waren die wichtigsten Psychotherapieverfahren im Dialog. Referenten u.a.: Mary Goulding, Jay Haley, James Hillman, Otto Kernberg, Cloè Madanes, Judd Marmor, James Matterson, Salvador Minuchin, Mara Selvini Palazzoli, Ernest Rossi, Helm Stierlin, Thomas Szasz, Paul Watzlawick, Irving Yalom und Jeffrey Zeig. Hören Sie hier Paul Watzlawick in seinem Workshop: „Einsicht“ erzeugt Blindheit: wenn die Lösung zum Problem wird. Folgen Sie uns auch auf Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/0HVLyjAHZkFMVr9XDATMGz Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pg/carlauerverlag/ Twitter https://twitter.com/carlauerverlag Instagram https://www.instagram.com/carlauerverlag/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/carlauerverlag Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/carlauerverlag Oder schauen Sie hier vorbei https://www.carl-auer.de/