Every age, labels others to a particular fate, such as the witch consigned to the fire. The priest has now been replaced by the psychiatrist and this text examines the role of medicine as a more insidious tyrant than religion, as it claims to be beneficial to both the patient an…
"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 …
"Psychiatry is now a dismal failure. From a strictly medical viewpoint - it doesn't work. Its insistence on a banal mechanistic approach is simplistic and grossly inappropriate. Its obstinate over-reliance on drugs results in epidemics, not cures"--Chapter 1