First Aired: 19831 Season

States of Mind

Topics:#philosophy #psychology #neuroscience #philosophy of mind

Series Overview

Series of programmes about psychology, in which Jonathan Miller talks to eminent psychologists about their theories and beliefs.

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Episodes & Seasons

1 Season • 15 Episodes

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1983 – 1983

Premiered: Sun, Feb 20, 1983

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Aired: Sat, Jun 4, 1983

Season 1, Episode 15: “Thomas Szasz”

Despite remarkable advances in medical science over the past century, there is still no clear medical understanding of the causes of most forms of insanity. Dr Thomas Szasz, author of The Manufacture of Madness and The Myth of Mental Illness, argues that madness has been misrepresented as a disease, and that this has enabled psychiatrists to tyrannise and imprison the mad in the name of philanthropy or therapy.