The manufacture of madness
a comparative study of the Inquisition and the mental health movement
by Thomas Stephen Szasz, Thomas Szasz, Thomas S. Szasz · first published 1970
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Intends 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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>more like a state-supported official religion You might find The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement by Dr. Thomas Szasz interesting[1]. In this book Dr. Szasz historically shows the startling revelation of how modern psychiatry…
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on “Ask HN: What books are you reading?” ↗In The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study and of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement, Szasz goes into the history of Psychiatry and how it evolved out of and is the modern day equivalent of the Inquisition. After…
on “A psychiatrist who didn’t believe in mental illness (2013)” ↗In The Manufacture of Madness: A comparative Study of The Inquisition and The Mental Health Movement (1970), Dr. Thomas Szasz reveals how psychiatry is historically related to the Inquisition. In fact, the founding fathers of psychiatry…
on “As a psychiatrist, I diagnose mental illness, and help spot demonic possession” ↗