The problem of suicide is not a central subject for T. Szasz. There are only two books devoted directly to the suicide problem in his numerous books: “Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide” (1999) and “Suicide Prohibition: The Shame of Medicine” (2011). But the importance of considering the problem of suicide in the framework of the anti-psychiatry project can be expressed in two approaches. First, a study of suicides and treatment practices to apply to people suspected of possible suicide or to who have failed to attempt suicide is based on the main thesis of T. Szasz about the myth of Continue reading →