薩茲博士談司法體系中的精神病學
Professor Thomas Szasz On Psychiatry In Our Justice System
“It is unlikely that toxicologists would be tolerated in courts of law if one would observe that he found a large quantity of arsenic in the body of a deceased person, and another stated that he found by the same operation none. Yet this sorry spectacle is commonplace in regard to psychiatric findings.”
「如果一位毒物學家在死者的屍體中發現了大量的砷，而另一位做了同樣的程序，卻說他沒有發現任何砷，那毒物學家大概不會見容於法庭。然而，就精神病學來說，這種令人遺憾的景象卻是司空見慣。」
“The introduction of psychiatric considerations into the administration of the criminal law—for example, the insanity plea and verdict, diagnoses of mental incompetence to stand trial, and so forth—corrupt the law and victimize the subject on whose behalf they are employed.”
「將精神病學的考量導入刑法的執法程序，例如精神失常的抗辯和判決、診斷某人在心智上無能力接受審判等等，這些作為不但敗壞法律，也使精神科所代理的行為人成為受害者。」
“All criminal behavior should be controlled by means of the criminal law, from the administration of which psychiatrists ought to be excluded.”
「所有犯罪行為都應該用刑法來管控，不該讓精神病學參與執法。」
