The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct

The Author Believes That What Is Nowadays Accepted As Mental Illness Is Whatever Psychiatrists Say It Is - And That Psychiatry Has, With Increasing Zeal, Defined More And More Kinds Of Behavior As Mental Illness. What Is Termed Mental Illness Is In Fact Behavior Disapproved Of By The Speaker. Growth And Structure Of The Myth -- Hysteria: An Example Of The Myth -- Semiotical Analysis Of Behavior -- Rule-following Analysis Of Behavior -- Game-model Analysis Of Behavior. By Thomas S. Szasz. Bibliography: P. 281-292.