The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement - Softcover

Szasz, Thomas Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0815604610 ISBN 13: 9780815604617

Verlag: Syracuse University Press, 1997

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Examines the ways that mental illness has been used to control and maintain the status quo, scapegoat certain kinds of people, and label people as "other."

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Thomas Szasz is the author of over six hundred articles and twenty-four books. He was a practicing psychiatrist and a professor of psychiatry emeritus at the Health Science Center, State University of New York, in Syracuse.

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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.'

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• Verlag: Syracuse University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0815604610
• ISBN 13: 9780815604617
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 363
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