Faith in Freedom: Libertarian Principles and Psychiatric Practices [1 ed.] 0765802449, 9780765802446

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Liberty from Psychiatry
I. Principles: Why Libertarianism and Psychiatry are Incompatible
1. Responsibility: The Moral Foundation of Liberty
Freedom and Independence
The Primacy of Responsibility
Have Economists Hijacked the Idea of Liberty?
2. The Libertarian Credo and the Ideology of Psychiatry
The Principle of Nonaggression
Psychiatry and the Problem of What Counts as Initiating Violence
Medicine and Violence
Psychiatry and Dangerousness
The Principle of Self-Ownership
Self-Ownership and the Courts
Conclusion
3. Economics and Psychiatry: Twin Scientisms
Economics as Rhetoric and Religion
Nobel Prizes in “Economic Sciences”
Nobel Prizes in “Psychiatric Sciences”
Neuroeconomics: Bewitchment with Neuroscientism
Conclusion
4. Economocracy and Pharmacracy: Twin Systems of Social Control
The Individual, the Family, and the State
Property, the Foundation of Liberty
“Aid” and the Unchained War Metaphor
The Rhetoric and Politics of “Aid”
Economics and Psychiatry: What are They Really About?
The Naked Emperors
Reconsidering Liberty and Psychiatry
Conclusion
II. Profiles: Where Some Famous Libertarians Went Wrong
A. Civil Libertarians
5. John Stuart Mill
Mad-doctoring and On Liberty
Are Mental Patients Like Minors?
Utilitarianism and the Problem of Happiness
Conclusion
6. Bertrand Russell
Roads to Freedom
Power and Psychiatry
Bertrand Russell vs. John Russell
Russell’s “Horror of Madness”
The Evil Pair: Madman and Psychiatrist
Conclusion: Russell, Apostle of Reason
7. The American Civil Liberties Union
The ACLU’s Love Affair with Psychiatric Slavery
From Bad to Worse: The Rights of People with Mental Disabilities
Conclusion
B. Objectivist Libertarians
8. Ayn Rand
Rothbard on Rand
Rand on Psychiatry
Conclusion
9. Nathaniel Branden
The Psychology of Self-Esteem
Breaking Free
Branden on Mental Illness
Judgment Day
An Interview with Branden
Branden as Psychotherapist
Conclusion
C. Libertarians
10. Ludwig von Mises
Praxeology and Psychiatry
Human Action (1949)
Liberalism (1927)
Conclusion
11. Friedrich von Hayek
The Rule of Law and its Implication for Psychiatry
Hayek and the Myth of Mental Illness
Hayek on Medicine and Psychiatry
Hayek and Psychology
Hayek versus Scientism
Conclusion
12. Murray N. Rothbard
Rothbard and Psychiatry
Conclusions
13. Robert Nozick
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Philosophical Explanations
The Examined Life
The Examined Life and Suicide
The Unexamined Life
The Nature of Rationality and Invariances
Conclusions
14. Julian Simon
Simon’s Psychology of Depression
Conclusion
15. Deirdre N. McCloskey
Crossing: From Donald to Deirdre McCloskey
Transsexualism and Psychiatry
Transsexualism in Perspective
Role Obligation and Psychiatric Coercion
Conclusions
Finale
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index