Episode 53: The Myth of Mental Illness (The Life of Thomas Szasz)
Michael and David begin their new series on Transgressive Thinkers, with an overview of the radical ideas of Thomas Szasz. Subjects include victimhood vs. self esteem, rhetoric, religion, inquisitions, social hysteria, social fictions, Freud, the rise of psychoanalysis, the philosophy of Personalism, the “Outsider,” narcissism and autophobia, mental illness, madness,