The Manufacture of Madness Thomas Szasz

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The Manufacture of Madness by Thomas Szasz

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Summary

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 The priest has now been replaced by the psychiatrist and this text examines the role of medicine as a more insidious tyrant than religion, as it claims to be beneficial to both the patient and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.

The Manufacture of Madness Summary

The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement by Thomas Szasz

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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The Manufacture of Madness . . . is strictly an 8-to-1 jolt, a blockbuster. This is Szasz at his best: driving relentlessly; writing with consummate artistry and a dazzling, indeed overwhelming, scholarship. . . . It is the most important of Szasz work to date, and it is a definitive statement, a classic of its kind, both as the underground history of psychiatry and, no doubt, as prophecy. Quite possibly [Dr. Szasz] has done more than any other man to alert the American public to the potential of an excessively psychiatrized society.

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GOR003104816

ISBN 13

9780815604617

ISBN 10

0815604610

Title

The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement by Thomas Szasz

Author

Thomas Szasz

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Syracuse University Press

Year published

1997-03-31

Number of pages

406

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N/A

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