Rethinking mental illness : are we drugging our healers and prophets?

Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement Paperback – April 1, 1997

by Thomas Szasz

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."

http://www.amazon.com/Manufacture-Madness-Comparative-Inquisition-Movement/dp/0815604610

http://www.the-open-mind.com/Rethinking-Mental-Illness-Are-We-Drugging-Our-Prophets-And-Healers/#Sthash.Dbgeftkx.Dpuf