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| Title |
Secular humanism and "scientific psychiatry"
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, April 2006
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| DOI | 10.1186/1747-5341-1-5 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Thomas Szasz |
| Abstract |
The Council for Secular Humanism identifies Secular Humanism as a "way of thinking and living" committed to rejecting authoritarian beliefs and embracing "individual freedom and responsibility ... and cooperation." The paradigmatic practices of psychiatry are civil commitment and insanity defense, that is, depriving innocent persons of liberty and excusing guilty persons of their crimes: the consequences of both are confinement in institutions ostensibly devoted to the treatment of mental diseases. Black's Law Dictionary states: "Every confinement of the person is an 'imprisonment,' whether it be in a common prison, or in private house, or in the stocks, or even by forcibly detaining one in the public streets." Accordingly, I maintain that Secular Humanism is incompatible with the principles and practices of psychiatry. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 2 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 29 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 29 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 17% |
| Researcher | 4 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 14% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 10% |
| Other | 4 | 14% |
| Unknown | 4 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 10 | 34% |
| Psychology | 5 | 17% |
| Philosophy | 3 | 10% |
| Neuroscience | 2 | 7% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 7% |
| Other | 3 | 10% |
| Unknown | 4 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 April 2020.
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#7,047,002
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
#140
of 234 outputs
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#25,512
of 84,472 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
#4
of 5 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 234 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.1. This one is in the 39th percentile – i.e., 39% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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