The Myth of Mental Illness

The Myth of Mental Illness is a book by Thomas Szasz, a psychiatrist.

The book labels psychiatry as medicalizing social, ethical, and moral problems.

Szasz may have said that psychiatry often relies on "coercion" as cure. He and others may believe that non-consensual psychiatry should be abolished. Some have referred to those who are involved as patients in psychiatry against their will as "psychiatric slaves".