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Module Title: Issues in Psychology Critical Analysis: Should people with psychological problems be hospitalised against their will? The following is a critical review on the text by Thomas Szasz; Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted, and also of the text, 'The Myth of Mental Illnesses. In the text, 'Cruel Compassion', Thomas Szasz (1994) develops an argument that psychiatry is an exercise in social control, which allows society to remove from its midst and incarcerate people who are unwanted and dependent. Supporting this are the assumptions that mental illness does not exist and that psychiatric practice largely consists of coercion and control. This book is a recent instalment in Szasz's crusade against mental health care in its many guises, and in particular, against the use of cruelty and oppression in psychiatry. He says that the victims of psychiatry are bullied in many ways. They are hospitalized against their will, they are forced out...

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