Title: The manufacture of madness
Subtitle: a comparative study of the Inquisition and the mental health movement
First published: 1970
Description: Intends 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.
Subjects: Antipsychiatry, History, Mental Disorders, Mental health services, Mental illness, Political aspects, Political aspects of Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Public Policy, Social control, Social psychology, Mental Health, Iatrogenic Disease, Psychiatric Hospitals, Witchcraft and mental health, Psychiatrie, Histoire, Maladies mentales, Geschichte, 44.91 psychiatry, psychopathology, Psychiatry, political aspects, Witches, Crimes against, Inquisition, spain, Military policy, Soviet Union. Voenno-Morskoĭ Flot