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

Thomas Stephen Szasz

ISBN 10: 0060141980 ISBN 13: 9780060141981

Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers, 1970

Synopsis

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."

Edition details

• Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers
• Publication date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060141980
• ISBN 13: 9780060141981
• Binding: Textbook Binding
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 385