- Topic Areas:
- Workshop
- Category:
- Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 1990
- Faculty:
- Thomas Szasz, MD
- Duration:
- 2 Hours 37 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date :
- Dec 12, 1990
Description
Description:
This workshop centers around a videotaped conversation Dr. Szasz had with a young man diagnosed as “schizophrenic” at a major medical center. The conversation effectively demonstrates that “schizophrenia is in the eye of the beholder. “
Educational Objectives:
- To illustrate how to speak with a person denominated as a psychotic patient as if he/she were a reasonable person, not a “schizophrenic patient”
- To hint, by way of a relatively brief but dramatic human interaction, at the powerful motives that generate and perpetuate the idea of schizophrenia
*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
