This book by Thomas Szasz examines the concept of mental illness and its implications in society. Szasz argues that mental illness is a myth, and that it is used as a tool to control and manipulate people. He examines the history of mental illness and its various treatments, and challenges
Thomas Stephen Szasz was a Hungarian-American academic and psychiatrist. He served for most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University. A distinguished lifetime fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a life member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he was best known as a social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, as what he saw as the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as scientism.