Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the intellectual expectations of our age it is a pseudo-medical jargon that parodies the concepts of science. The social style conforms to the political expectations of our age it is a pseudo-liberal social movement that parodies the ideals of freedom and rationality. (Thomas Szasz)

Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the intellectual expectations of our age it is a pseudo-medical jargon that parodies the concepts of science. The social style conforms to the political expectations of our age it is a pseudo-liberal social movement that parodies the ideals of freedom and rationality.

Thomas Szasz

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