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The manufacture of madness

a comparative study of the Inquisition and the mental health movement

by Thomas Stephen Szasz, Thomas Szasz, Thomas S. Szasz, Thomas Stephen Szasz · 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.

AntipsychiatryHistoryMental DisordersMental health servicesMental illnessPolitical aspectsPolitical aspects of PsychiatryPsychiatryPublic PolicySocial controlSocial psychologyMental Health