Contributors MARGARET P. BATTIN, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics, at the University of Utah.
RICHARD P. BENTALL, Ph. D., was appointed to a chair in Experimental Clinical Psychology at the University of Manchester in 1999.
H. TRISTRAM ENGELHARDT, Jr., Ph.D., M.D., is Professor, Department of Philosophy, Rice University, and Professor Emeritus, Department of Medicine and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine.
K.W.M. (BILL) FULFORD, D. Phil., F.R.C.P., F.R.C. Psych, is Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health, University of Warwick.
MARGARET A. HAGEN, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Boston University.
ROBERT EVAN KENDELL, C.B.E., M.D., F.R.S.E., was appointed Professor of Psychiatry at Edinburgh Medical School in 1974.
E. JAMES LIEBERMAN, M.D., M.P.H., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, George Washington University School of Medicine.
STANTON PEELE, Ph.D., J.D., has published nine books.
RAY SCOTT PERCIVAL, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, United Arab Emirates University.
RONALD W. PIES, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicinel.
JEFFREY A. SCHALER, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Justice, Law, and Society at American University's School of Public Affairs in Washington, D.C.
RITA J. SIMON, Ph.D., is University Professor, School of Public Affairs and the Washington College of Law, at American University, Washington, D.C.
RALPH J. SLOVENKO, Ph.D., J.D., is Professor of Law and Psychiatry at Wayne State University Law School.
RYAN SPELLECY, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at the Center for the Study of Bioethics in the Medical College of Wisconsin.
THOMAS S. SZASZ, M.D., is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Center in Syracuse.
"Anyone who has ever had qualms about the state giving psychiatrists the power to use drugs and civil commitment to control its citizens on the basis of 'mental illness' will be deeply rewarded by this stellar intellectual performance by Szasz, who not only holds his liberty-centered ground, but often gains more in direct and sometimes brutally frank responses to his critics and would-be reshapers of his life's work." -GEORGE J. ANNAS
Professor and Chair, Department of Health, Bioethics, and Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health, and author of The Rights of Patients
"This dialogue between Dr. Szasz and his critics allows him to once again articulate the argument he has presented so brilliantly and passionately for over four decades. . . . A profession that fails to learn from and respect those who confront it with controversial and discomforting ideas loses strength and vibrancy. Hopefully, at least some younger psychiatrists will be encouraged to read this book. They will find that their intellectual and professional lives will be enriched."
-SEYMOUR L. HALLECK
Author of Law in the Practice of Psychiatry and The Mentally Disordered Offender
