Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but it cannot--despite the pretensions and protestations of psichiatrists--be both.
Thomas SzaszAbout author
- Author's profession: Psychologist
- Nationality: american
- Born: April 15, 1920
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