This is Szasz's most ambitious work to date. In his best-selling book, The Myth of Mental Illness, he took psychiatry to task for misconstruing human conflict and coping as mental illness. In * Our Right to Drugs,he exposed the irrationality and political opportunism that fuels the Drug War. In The ...

This is Szasz's most ambitious work to date. In his best-selling book, The Myth of Mental Illness, he took psychiatry to task for misconstruing human conflict and coping as mental illness. In * Our Right to Drugs,he exposed the irrationality and political opportunism that fuels the Drug War. In The Meaning of Mind,* he warns that we misconstrue the dialogue within as a problem of consciousness and neuroscience, and do so at our own peril.