and the Mental Health Movement by Thomas Szasz
"Of the thousands of books published each year in the United States, only a small proportion represents a significant contribution to the advancement of man's understanding of man. The Manufacture of Madness is one of those rare books.... [it] is both controversial and insightful, scandalizing and synthesizing, muckraking and seminal, disturbing and fascinating.... I highly recommend this brilliant book." - James M. Henslin, American Sociological Review "A blockbuster. This is Szasz at his best: driving relentlessly; writing with consummate artistry and a dazzling, indeed overwhelming, scholarship; and developing, varying, and orchestrating his theme into majestic proportions. It is the most important of Szasz's works to date ... a classic of its kind." - David J. Vail, Hospital and Community Psychiatry "It is to be hoped that The Manufacture of Madness will stir the psychiatric establishment into some realization of the fact that persecution of people merely because they are different exists as much today as it did in the sixteenth century." - Drugs and Society
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