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163 Notes Preface: What Is Antipsychiatry? 1. See especially T. Szasz, Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry: An Inquiry into the Social Uses of Mental Health Practices, Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences, and Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry. Introduction: What Antipsychiatry Is Not 1. D. Tantam, “Critical Psychiatry: What Was Anti-Psychiatry?” http://www.uea .ac.uk/~wp276/define.htm. 2. M. Twain, http://www.quoteworld.org/quotes/10326. 3. D. Tantam, “Sartre’s Existentialism and Current Neuroscience Research,” Existential Analysis 19 (July 2008): 364–88, quote on 384. 4. T. Szasz, Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America. 5. See Chapter 6. 6. D. J. Rissmiller and J. H. Rissmiller, “Evolution of the Antipsychiatry Movement into Mental Health Consumerism,” Psychiatric Services 57 (June 2006): 863–66, http://psych services.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/57/6/863. 7. K. W. M. [Bill] Fulford, T. Thornton, and G. Graham, Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry, 17–18. 8. Szasz, Liberation by Oppression. 9. B. Beyer, Die Bestrebungen zur Reform des Irrenwesen (Halle am Saale: Carl Marhold Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1912), 180. 10. D. Cooper, Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry (London: Tavistock, 1967), 104; D. Cooper , introduction to The Dialectics of Liberation, edited by D. Cooper, 8. See also A. C. Laing, R. D. Laing: A Biography (1994), 132. 11. A. Colman, “Antipsychiatry,” in A Dictionary of Psychology (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001). 12. “Anti-Psychiatry,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-psychiatry. 164 | Notes to Pages 6–17 13. G. Marshall, A Dictionary of Sociology (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998), http:// www.highbeam.com/doc/1088-antipsychiatry.html. 14. A. Burns, “Anti-psychiatry,” http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/ id235/pg1/index.html. 15. D. Cooper, The Grammar of Living, 54; T. Szasz, Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry, 48. 16. C. Oakley, “Dangerous Liaisons: The Rivalrous Resemblance of David Cooper and R. D. Laing,” Free Association 4 (1993): 277–93; D. Cooper, The Language of Madness. 1. Antipsychiatrie: Querulantenwahnsinn 1. See T. Szasz, Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry and Liberation by Oppression. 2. Quoted in T. Szasz, ed., The Age of Madness: The History of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization Presented in Selected Texts, 7–9. 3. J. S. Mill, “The Law of Lunacy” (letter to the editor of the Daily News, July 31, 1858), in Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, 25:1198–99, quoted in Szasz, Liberation by Oppression, 180–81. 4. Beyer, Die Bestrebungen, 180 (see intro., n. 9); Szasz, Schizophrenia, 48. 5. C. McDowall, “Litigious or Wrangling Insanity or Paranoia Querulans of the Germans ,” Journal of Mental Science 56 (July 1910): 528–29. 6. A. Goldberg, “The Mellage Trial and the Politics of Insane Asylums in Wilhelmine Germany,” Journal of Modern History (Mar. 2002): 1, 7, 9–10. 7. Ibid., 20. 8. A. Goldberg, “A Reinvented Public: ‘Lunatics’ Rights’ and Bourgeois Populism in the Kaiserreich,” German History 21 (2003): 159–82, quote on 159. 9. Ibid., 159–61 (emphasis added). 10. Ibid., 162–63 (emphasis added). 11. Ibid., 164; Goldberg, “Mellage Trial,” 22 (emphasis added). 12. Goldberg, “Reinvented Public,” 166. 13. Ibid., 166, 171. 14. Ibid., 174–75. 15. Ibid., 176, 178 (emphasis added); T. Szasz, “Debunking Antipsychiatry: Laing, Law, and Largactil,” Current Psychology 27 (June 2008): 79–101. 16. S. Freud, “Psychoanalytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides)” (1911), in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, 12:1–82. See also T. Szasz, Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus’s Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry. 17. Z. Lothane, In Defense of Schreber: Soul Murder and Psychiatry, 230. Notes to Pages 17–27 | 165 18. There is a vast literature on this important case. See especially ibid.; M. Schatzman, Soul Murder: Persecution in the Family; and D. Schreber, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. 19. Lothane, In Defense of Schreber, 466. 20. Szasz, Schizophrenia, 39. 21. S. A. Cartwright, “Report on the Diseases and Physical Peculiarities of the Negro Race,” New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal 7 (1851): 691–715. See also T. Szasz, “The Sane Slave: An Historical Note on the Use of Medical Diagnosis as Justificatory Rhetoric,” American Journal of Psychotherapy 25 (Apr. 1971): 228–39. 22. American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, “Children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder,” updated Dec. 1999, http://aacap.org/page.ww?name=Children+with+ Oppositional+Defiant+Disorder§ion=Facts+for+Families. 23. “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity...