UPDATED TO FIX FORMATTING ISSUES Overview/Methodology In this post, I'm going to look at the accuracy of quotation in Thomas Szasz's The Myth of Mental Illness ("MoMI"). I'm using a revised edition published by Harper & Row in 1974. Szasz uses

Scholarly accuracy is important. We need to be able to know what other people said in order to understand it and build upon it (by making further advances on it or by criticizing it). Conceptually understanding what another person said can be difficult. By contrast, accurately copying the literal text