The manufacture of madness
a comparative study of the Inquisition and the mental health movement
About this book
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
- 44.91 psychiatry, psychopathology
- antipsychiatry
- crimes against
- geschichte
- histoire
- history
- iatrogenic disease
- inquisition, spain
- maladies mentales
- mental disorders
- mental health
- mental health services
- mental illness
- military policy
- political aspects
- political aspects of psychiatry
- psychiatric hospitals
- psychiatrie
- psychiatry
- psychiatry, political aspects
- public policy
- social control
- social psychology
- soviet union. voenno-morskoĭ flot
- witchcraft and mental health
- witches