TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2003//
TI  - Psychiatry and the control of dangerousness: On the apotropaic function of the term "mental illness"
JO  - Journal of social work education
A1  - Szasz, T.
SP  - 375
EP  - 381
VL  - 39
IS  - 3
N2  - The term "mental illness" implies that persons with such illnesses are more likely to be dangerous to themselves and/or others than are persons without such illnesses. This is the source of the psychiatrist's traditional social obligation to control "harm to self and/or others," that is, suicide and crime. The ethical dilemmas of psychiatry cannot be resolved as long as the contradictory functions of healing persons and protecting society are united in a single discipline. © 2003 BMJ Publishing Group, Inc.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1043-7797
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2003.10779144
ID  - ref1
ER  -