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Manufacture of Madness: Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement - Hardcover

Szasz, Thomas

 
9780710072214: Manufacture of Madness: Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 071007221X ISBN 13: 9780710072214
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC, 1971

Synopsis

Every age, labels others to a particular fate, such as the witch consigned to the fire. The priest has now been replaced by the psychiatrist and this text examines the role of medicine as a more insidious tyrant than religion, as it claims to be beneficial to both the patient and the commonwealth.

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About the Author

Thomas Szasz (1920-2012) was professor of psychiatry emeritus at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York and adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, Washington, DC. He was a prominent figure in the anti-psychiatry movement and a critic of the moral and scientific foundation of psychiatry.

From the Back Cover

In this seminal work, Dr. Szasz examines the similarities between the Inquisition and institutional psychiatry. His purpose is to show 'that the belief in mental illness and the social actions to which it leads have the same moral implications and political consequences as had the belief in witchcraft and the social actions to which it led.'

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Publisher
Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC
Publication date
1971
Language
English
ISBN 10 
071007221X
ISBN 13 
9780710072214
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
414