>more like a state-supported official religion You might find The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement

>more like a state-supported official religion You might find The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement by Dr. Thomas Szasz interesting[1]. In this book Dr. Szasz historically shows the startling revelation of how modern psychiatry evolved out of and is the modern day equivalent of the Inquisition. As the church lost its control over the state during the Enlightenment, witches were relabeled as crazies and the supralegal role of social control was taken over by the psychiatric state. [1]https://www.amazon.com/Manufacture-Madness-Comparative-Inquisition-Movement/dp/0815604610 https://www.amazon.com/Manufacture-Madness-Comparative-Inqui...