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

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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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    978-0815604617
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    Syracuse University Press
  5. Publication date
    April 1, 1997
  6. Language
    English
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    5.5 x 0.93 x 8.25 inches
  8. Print length
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The Manufacture of Madness . . . is strictly an 8-to-1 jolt, a blockbuster. This is Szasz at his best: driving relentlessly; writing with consummate artistry and a dazzling, indeed overwhelming, scholarship. . . . It is the most important of Szasz’ work to date, and it is a definitive statement, a classic of its kind, both as the underground history of psychiatry and, no doubt, as prophecy. ― Hospital and Community Psychiatry

Quite possibly [Dr. Szasz] has done more than any other man to alert the American public to the potential of an excessively psychiatrized society. ― Edwin Schurr, The Atlantic

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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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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Syracuse University Press; Reprint edition (April 1, 1997)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 406 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0815604610
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0815604617
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.93 x 8.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 42 ratings

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Rachim Baskin
5.0 out of 5 stars This is the Szasz book to read.
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2023
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He made his public name with The Myth of Mental Illness, but this book tells how the racket of mental-illness-finding worked and works.
You may well forever see things in a way free of the conventional, damaging categories.

Szasz was the pioneer psychiatric abolitionist. Rothbard called him, "a
one-man band".

Champion of the dignity of
individuals, however eccentric or foolish they are. Scourge of all tyrannies, however lipsticked.
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Lauren Huff
5.0 out of 5 stars Raising Questions
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2021
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Although today's world of mental healthcare is very different than that of the mid 20th century, this book is still applicable today. We put people in categories of "sane" and "insane," much like "good" and "bad." Szasz's book encourages readers to take a second look at this paradigm and see the issue as a more nuanced one. He weaves a great deal of history in his arguments, especially that of the witch crazes of medieval and early modern Europe.
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Skyツ
3.0 out of 5 stars A book for my psychological Library.
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2023
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The book came in good condition and fast shipping. I bought this book for my psychological Library. - Sky
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5.0 out of 5 stars It outlines the psychiatric scam
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2016
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The book outlines the scam of Psychiatry. In summary being define a mental illness or state and design a drug to
"solve" it. But the book has the details. Highly recommend..
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Robi Fallani
5.0 out of 5 stars I highly recommend the book to psychology students and mental health professionals
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2015
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Dr.Szasz provides alternative views of mental illness that stimulate curiosity and the desire to look deeper into conventional theories. I highly recommend the book to psychology students and mental health professionals.
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Philip L. Chandler
4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, demolishes homosexuality as mental illness
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2005
One particular chapter -- "The Product Conversion" -- does a brilliant job of demolishing the theory that homosexuality is a mental illness. It dissects every argument made to this effect, and shows that homosexuality is nothing more than a variant of human sexuality, in much the same way that being left-handed is nothing more than a variant of laterality. Szasz does a brilliant job of showing the hypocrisy of the medico-legal establishment in terms of that establishment (1) declaring that homosexuality is a mental illness (this is no longer the official position of the American Psychological or American Psychiatric Associations) while (2) declaring that homosexuality is a crime. It cannot be both, as Szasz points out in his analysis -- while criminals can be mentally ill, homosexual status as opposed to conduct cannot be both criminal **and** a mental illness. The book is worth purchasing for this chapter alone, and I recommend it to any person interested in beating back efforts to remedicalize and recrimenalize the status of gay people. This chapter also reveals the manner in which religious ideology masquerades as psychiatric doctrine, ruthlessly exposing the epistemological error made by those who cling to outdated and cruel theories in this regard.

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Christine Mendenhall
1.0 out of 5 stars Disgusting
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2021
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The book arrived moldy and stained
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Cedarbeast
5.0 out of 5 stars Buy Now
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2015
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Szasz is a genius. "Institutional vs. Contractual" psychiatry.
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A. C. Phipps
5.0 out of 5 stars The Fraud that is Psychiatry Exposed
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 8, 2013
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This a book that HAS TO BE READ . Szasz presents his case with impeccable precision. The fraud that is modern
psychiatry is totally and utterly exposed. The comparison of the exact mechanism of the inquisition and it's parallel
in institutional psychiatric intervention is illustrated with astonishing accuracy. This book should be made a part of every school curriculum Get it and read it- your future may depend on it!
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MR ROB FURSMAN
5.0 out of 5 stars Must read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 12, 2020
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