Prof. Richard E. Vatz

• Dr. Vatz is a tenured full professor of Rhetoric and Communication at Towson University (Baltimore, Md.) where he has served for 27 years.
• He won 4 outstanding teaching (awarded to 30 faculty a year) awards at Towson in the five years they were awarded. He was the 1994 winner of the Thomas Szasz Award.
• He has written over 250 articles and reviews on rhetoric and psychiatry, including: Thomas Szasz: Primary Values and Major Contentions (Prometheus Books: 1983), a chapter, "Thomas Szasz and the Rhetorical Paradigm of Psychiatry," in Discovering the History of Psychiatry (Oxford University Press, 1994) and articles in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and elsewhere.
• He has appeared to discuss issues on psychiatry on CNN (including "Crossfire"), "The Phil Donahue Show" and "Larry King Live."
• He is the longest-serving member of Towson University's University Senate.
  

http://www.towson.edu/~vatz/

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