Thomas Szasz (was Re: Anti-Depressants)

[Gordon Fitch]

furuhashi.1 at osu.edu writes:
> << and, btw, arguments like that of szaz's were considered *very*
> >radical and *very* left a few decades ago. szaz's work, for ex, was
> >one of the factors behind changing the classification of
> >homosexuality as a psychiatric illness.

Michael Pugliese:
>    Huh? I was always under the impression that Szasz was on the Right, given
> his preferred publication outlets in Libertarian rags. ...

It's curious that personal autonomy is found, even assigned,
to the Right, given that the Right is the party of
authority, power, status, private wealth, order, and
conformity, the friends of the King of France, while the
Left is the party of freedom and equality.  How'd that
happen, anyway?

Because autonomy is what Szasz is on about, mostly -- the
autonomy of persons in the face of institutions, for example
to ingest what drugs they please.  Conceded a lot of what he
says is silly -- that's not the issue I'm raising.