About this title: 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 The priest has now been replaced by the psychiatrist and this text examines the role of medicine as a more insidious tyrant than religion, as it claims to be beneficial to both the patient and the commonwealth.
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Description: Good. 0060905603 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Delta, New York
Date Published: 1970
Description: Good+ "What we call modern, dynamic psychiatry is neither a glamorous advance over the superstitions and practices of the witch-hunts, nor a regression from the humanism of the Renaissance and the scientific spirit of the Enlightenment. In actuality, Institutional Psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. " Soft cover, 383 pp. Moderate wear with creases and fading on spine, small hole punched on front cover, text is ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Row
Date Published: 1970
Description: Good. Ex-library. Missing cover jacket. With normal shelf wear. With minor markings. Free tracking for all domestic orders. If specific item description desired feel free to contact us. 100% guaranteed (Just let us know and we'll make it right) Express, Expedited and International shipping available upon request on items that don't offer it =) read more
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)-1st
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Harper & Row, Many
Date Published: 1970
ISBN-13:9780060141981ISBN:0060141980
Description: Good in Very Good jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. X-Library with normal flaws. The hard cover has light shelf wear. Some of the pages has the top corner creased............We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: A Delta Book
Date Published: 1970
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very-good copy of this 1970 psychology book. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine-Bright pages. 10 pages have light writing/underlining. Does NOT interfere with reading. 385 pages. Book seller label in book front-on blank page. NO tears inside book. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers, New York
Date Published: 1970
Description: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Stated First Edition, DJ that of the Psychology Today Book Club. Hinges stretched but still intact, not cracked or split. Has previous owner's name & address inside front board, boards somewhat shelfworn, a Good or Better Condition Reading Copy in a DJ rubbed along the edges, with a few short tears. Back portion of DJ is partially adhered to rear board by moisture which has bled through to the boards causing some discoloration. DJ is almost 100% complete. 383 pages, index ... read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: A Delta Book
Date Published: 1970
Description: Very Good + 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very-nice, clean copy of this Szasz book-NO remainder marks or price clippings-Tight spine-bright pages-NO writing, marks or tears inside book-381pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Date Published: 1997-06
ISBN-13:9780815604617ISBN:0815604610
Description: Good. Mild bumping and wear from handling; Mild soiling to page edges; Minimal rubbing to covers and spine; Pages xvi and 6 have two small highlighting lines and couple of words in margins-rest of book looks clean; ** Free USPS tracking and confirm on US orders ** read more
Binding: Trade pb
Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
Date Published: [1970] 1971
Description: Very Good. No dust jacket. First Delta Printing 1971. First printing. Illustrated by. 383 p. ; index; bibliography; 20 cm. Bibliography: p. 351-370. read more
Edition: Edition Unstated
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780815604617ISBN:0815604610
Description: Good+ As issued No Jacket. Spine lean, corner bumps, reading and handling creases to the front cover, corner creases to the rear cover, scratches to both, and other light shopwear. Text is clean. read more
Description: Acceptable. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Description: Very Good in very good jacket. NY: Harper, [1970]. 1st Edition. xxvii+[1]+383+[5]pp. Orange cloth with black spine lettering and black front logo. A very good copy in dust jacket. 1 pound 6.0 ounces = 626 grams. 8.6 x 5.8 x 1.4 inches = 21.5 x 14.5 x 3.5cm. read more
Description: Very good; Collectible. 1970 Harper hard cover-stated First Edition-minor staining to page edge-otherwise dust jacket and cover fine binding strong contents clean-enjoy. read more
Binding: Textbook Binding
Publisher: Harpercollins College Div
Date Published: 1970-06
ISBN-13:9780060141981ISBN:0060141980
Description: Very Good. Stated first edition, very nice copy, dj nice with 2 tiny tears, has book plate inside, text is clean and unmarked, no high lighting or underlining, read more
Edition: 1st Edition 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Row, New York, NY
Date Published: 1970
Description: VG-/VG- W/Dust Jacket 383pp(Index) A 1" & a 1/2" DJ tear on top edges, top page ends spotted & ink name on front free endpaper, o.w. clean & tight. read more
"Possibly the biggest influence on me, career wise, so far, in that it made me want to be almost anything other than directly involved with the practice of Psychology/Psychiatry"
"A free thinker's delight. What Szasz says in essense is that social engineering is no more fun from a modern and secular/"scientific" world view than it was from a religious/"moral" world view. The problem with the "enlightened" perspective (in power) down through the ages remains. The right and responsible people need witches and madmen to justify their rightousness and they need jails torture and death sentences to justify their resonsibility. A must read for anyone who has ever been incarcerated in a mental instituion against their will or lost loved ones in a holy crusade."
""The Manufacture Of Madness" and "The Myth Of Mental Illness" are two of the most intriguing non-fiction books of the late twentieth century. Dr. Thomas Szasz presents a compelling argument that modern psychiatry has become all too accustomed to labeling any inconvenient behavior as an "illness." Exactly who decides what is "normal?" This book is wordy and difficult to wade through in parts, but Szasz makes his points well and his arguments are difficult to discard. This book would make an especially appropriate read for someone who is confused and on the verge of being declared mentally ill. It can't hurt them worse than whatever drugs will undoubtedly be prescribed for them."
"This book shows how the "mentally ill" category serves as a form of social control that has evolved directly from the category of "heretic." Although psychiatry uses the language of medicine, it has been more commonly used as a justification for the involuntary incarceration and remolding of behavioral deviants. The "diseases" that psychiatry discovers are defined not by their nature as medical pathology, but by their behavioral symptoms which are defined as "disease" in order to prohibit or suppress them."
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