The Myth of Mental Illness

The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct

Cover of the 1961 Hoeber-Harper edition
Author	Thomas Szasz
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Anti-psychiatry
Publisher	Harper & Row
Publication date	1961
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	337 (Secker & Warburg edition) 297 (Perennial Library edition)
ISBN	0-06-091151-4
OCLC	747804544

The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct is a 1961 book by the psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, in which the author criticizes psychiatry and argues against the concept of mental illness. It received much publicity, and has become a classic, well known as an argument that "mentally ill" is a label which psychiatrists have used against people "disabled by living" rather than truly having a disease.