The Manufacture of Madness
Author: Thomas Szasz
Desc: s/t: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition & the Mental Health Movement 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."