ABSTRACT
This writer was a friend and admirer and even a one-time coauthor with Thomas Szasz, perhaps the most consequential iconoclast of the seminal medical pretensions of psychiatry and, to a large extent, psychology as well (Vatz et al., 1985). He was also a major practitioner of rhetorical study, my academic field (Vatz & Weinberg, 1994). Also, Szasz’s rhetorical understanding is evident in the latest version of his major work, The Myth of Mental Illness (Szasz, 2010).
