"A highly original, thoughtful and well-intended book. . . . Deals with important topics-especially with sexual competence and incompetence, with sex therapy, with transsexual surgery, with sex education, and with sex and the state. Where other writers have conventionally belabored those topics and have copied from each other ad nauseam, Szasz gives them careful analysis and comes up with many ideas that are new and provocative. Even when one largely disagrees with his views, one can distinctly benefit, and often arrive at one's own revised formulations, from duly considering them."—Contemporary Psychology
Table of Contents
Preface
Preface to the First Edition
SEXUAL MEDICINE
1. Sex and the Self
2. Sex as Disease
3. Sex as Treatment—in Theory
4. Sex as Treatment—in Practice
5. Sexual Surgery
SEX EDUCATION
6. Religion as Sex Education
7. Sex Education—for Children
8. Sex Education—for Doctors
9. Sex and the State
10. Sex by Prescription
Notes
Index
About the Author
Thomas Szasz was professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York’s Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. His books include Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry, The Manufacture of Madness, Ceremonial Chemistry, The Myth of Psychotherapy, and Pharmacracy, all published by Syracuse University Press.
Related Interest
5.25 x 8.25, 224 pages
November 1990