Szasz first presented his attack on "mental illness" as a legal term in 1958 in the Columbia Law Review. In his article he argued that mental illness was no more a fact bearing on a suspect's guilt than is possession by the devil.[6] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLSf43SXEp4&feature=fvst Szasz first presented his attack on "mental illness" as a legal term in 1958 in the Columbia Law Review. In his article he argued that mental illness was no more a fact bearing on a suspect's guilt than is possession by the devil.[6] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLSf43SXEp4&feature=fvst