Thomas Szasz
Paperback | Pages: 426 pages Rating: 4.04 | 224 Users | 16 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition & the Mental Health Movement |
| ISBN: | 0815604610 (ISBN13: 9780815604617) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.szasz.com/ |
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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."Present Regarding Books The Manufacture of Madness
| Title | : | The Manufacture of Madness |
| Author | : | Thomas Szasz |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 426 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 1997 by Syracuse University Publications in Continuing Education (first published 1970) |
| Categories | : | Psychology. Health. Mental Health. Nonfiction. Medicine. Psychiatry. Philosophy. History |
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Ratings: 4.04 From 224 Users | 16 ReviewsComment On Regarding Books The Manufacture of Madness
The 9th book I've read by Szasz and the best one yet. A brutal look at how, while the objects of persecution and torture have changed over time, the basic method has not. We used to lock up homosexuals, mutilate masturbators, and burn witches. Now we imprison, bully, intimidate, and drug the depressed, the anxious, drug users, gamblers, and those who hear voices that we cannot hear. Man's desire to destroy what is different has not become more enlightened, it has only changed its mask.This book shows how the mentally ill category serves as a form of social control that has evolved directly from the category of heretic. Although psychiatry uses the language of medicine, it has been more commonly used as a justification for the involuntary incarceration and remolding of behavioral deviants. The diseases that psychiatry discovers are defined not by their nature as medical pathology, but by their behavioral symptoms which are defined as disease in order to prohibit or suppress
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This book explains how and why the modern Institution of Psychiatry has failed humanity. It seems the 16th century witch hunts created more witches than it cured. Likewise, since the practice of psychiatry was formed it seems there are more mentally ill individuals than it cures. If there is any book that has changed my thinking on a topic, such as mental illness, it is this book by psychoanalyst, Thomas Szasz. He points out labeling witches of the Inquisition as mentally ill is as erroneous as
Interesting study of the role of the scapegoat in society across time and space. The author's central argument is that the inquisition never ended, but morphed into what we know today as Institutional psychiatry. The inquisitor of yesterday is today's institutional psychiatrist. The game remains the same, only the players have changed, or changed names atleast. "Just as the Inquisition was the characteristic abuse of Christianity, so Institutional Psychiatry is the characteristic abuse of
"The Manufacture Of Madness" and "The Myth Of Mental Illness" are two of the most intriguing non-fiction books of the late twentieth century. Dr. Thomas Szasz presents a compelling argument that modern psychiatry has become all too accustomed to labeling any inconvenient behavior as an "illness." Exactly who decides what is "normal?" This book is wordy and difficult to wade through in parts, but Szasz makes his points well and his arguments are difficult to discard. This book would make an
Heard about this in class, 7/8/08
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