Every age, Thomas Szasz maintains, has its methods of labeling
others to assign them a particular fate; the witch and the heretic
were consigned to fire, for example. In the twentieth century,
however, the priest has been replaced by the psychiatrist, the
infidel by the patient; only the way in which the victims differ
from society at large with its ensuing punishment (all for the good
of society, then, as now) is different. Indeed, Szasz makes it
clear that medicine is if anything a more insidious tyrant than
religion because it purports to be beneficial to the patient as
well as the commonwealth.
"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. In
my opinion, The Method of Madness is one of those rare books". --
American Sociological Review
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