Question

Who argued that the notion of mental illness was invented by society (and the mental health establishment) to stigmatize and subjugate people whose behavior violates accepted social and legal norms? question 10 options:

a. isla fischer
b. john waller
c. marcia cross
d. thomas szasz?

Answer 1

The correct answer is D. Thomas Szasz. Thomas Szasz was born in Hungary 1920, and was a psychiatrist, academic and psychoanalyst. It is important that Thomas Szasz was not anti-psychiatry as he practiced and believed in psychoanalysis and psychiatry but with consenting adults as he was strongly opponent against involuntary treatment and civil commitment.