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

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 The priest has now been replaced by the psychiatrist and this text examines the role of medicine as a more insidious tyrant than religion, as it claims to be beneficial to both the patient and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