The Manufacture of Madness : A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement
by
Thomas Szasz
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0815604610
ISBN-13
9780815604617
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Imprint
Syracuse University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 1st, 1997
Print length
406 Pages
Weight
468 grams
Dimensions
20.90 x 13.80 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
AnthropologyHuman rightsHuman rights, civil rightsPsychiatryPsychiatry
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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 The priest has now been replaced by the psychiatrist and this text examines the role of medicine as a more insidious tyrant than religion, as it claims to be beneficial to both the patient and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.
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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