31 DECEMBER 1977, Page 14

Szasz in print

Sir: 1 have got news for all your readers who learned from Geoffrey Wheatcroft (Notebook, 17 December) of the demise of Thomas Szasz's books. Like the author himself, whom your correspondent so admires, they are full of life and enjoying the most excellent sales all over the world.

The Myth of Mental Illness, 'his seminal work', is now in its fifth edition in Paladin at £1.50. Dr Szasz's other important work, The Manufacture of Madness, has also been reprinted many times and is available in Paladin at £1.75.

Alewyn Birch, Managing Director, Granada Publishing Ltd, St. Albans, Herts.