A Letter Addressed to the Chairman of the Select Committee of the House of Commons

A Letter Addressed to the Chairman of the Select Committee of the House of Commons

Author: Thomas Bakewell

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9781358028601

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The Manufacture of Madness

The Manufacture of Madness

Author: Thomas Szasz

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 1997-04-01

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780815604617

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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.”