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The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement - Softcover

Szasz, Thomas

 
9780815604617: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement

Synopsis

Examines the ways that mental illness has been used to control and maintain the status quo, scapegoat certain kinds of people, and label people as "other."

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About the Author

Thomas Szasz is the author of over six hundred articles and twenty-four books. He was a practicing psychiatrist and a professor of psychiatry emeritus at the Health Science Center, State University of New York, in Syracuse.

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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