Psychoanalysis, Antipsychiatry 

This Edition: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Theory of Method of Autonomous Psychotherapy is an admirable book. One of the most concise, precise and lucid expositions of the nature, possibilities, and limitation of psychoanalytic treatment to be found anywhere. Editorial Reviews From the Back Cover In this book, I propose to describe psychotherapy as a social action, not as healing. So conceived, psychoanalytic treatment is characterized by its aim--to increase the patient's knowledge of himself and others and hence his freedom of choice in the conduct of his life; by its method--the analysis of communications, rules, and games; and lastly, by its social context--a contractual, rather than a 'therapeutic, ' relationship between analyst and analysand. About the Author Thomas Szasz (1920-2012) was professor of psychiatry emeritus at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York and adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, Washington, DC. He was a prominent figure in the anti-psychiatry movement and a critic of the moral and scientific foundation of psychiatry.