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| Program Number | S0648 |
| Title | Psychiatry: New Explorations |
| PBS Number | 1446 |
| Moderator | - |
| Host | Buckley, William F. (William Frank), 1925-2008. |
| Guest(s) | 1) Szasz, Thomas Stephen, 1920- - Professor of Psychiatry at the State University of New
York at Syracuse, author of The Therapeutic State 2) Vatz, Richard. - Professor of Communication at Towson State University in Baltimore, co-editor of Thomas Szasz: Primary Values and Major Contentions 3) Weinberg, Lee S. - Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh, co- editor of Thomas Szasz: Primary Values and Major Contentions |
| Taped on | May 22, 1985 (New York City, NY) |
| Broadcast Date | Jun 14, 1985 |
| Duration | 60 minutes (or hh:mm:ss) |
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| Summary | Whether one finds this show exhilarating or exasperating is likely to depend on one's view of Dr. Szasz and his principal theory: that there is no such thing as mental illness. WFB: "There are forms of mental disease that end up with violent denouements, right?" TS: "You are entirely right--except they are not mental disease, they are bad behavior." WFB: "Well, the guy who killed Allard Lowenstein confided to friends during the preceding period that Allard Lowenstein was transmitting signals to him through his wisdom teeth. Now what do you call that?" TS: "I call that a very nasty and powerful metaphor to justify his doing something to Allard Lowenstein." |
| Subject Heading(s) | Psychiatry -- Philosopy. Psychiatry -- United States -- Philosophy. Mental health -- United States. Psychiatry, Pathological -- Philosophy, Mental health policy -- United States. Szasz, Thomas Stephen, 1920- Mental illness -- United States. Forensic psychiatry -- United States. |
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| Purchase show | Program is unavailable on DVD at this time. |
| Transcript | Download transcript (80040_s0648_trans.pdf) |
