In The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study and of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement, Szasz goes into the history of Psychiatry and how it e

In The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study and of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement, Szasz goes into the history of Psychiatry and how it evolved out of and is the modern day equivalent of the Inquisition. After the Enlightenment, Church was separated from State, but the need for the subjugation of thought criminals remained. In fact, the first psychiatrists asserted that the witches of the Inquisition were in fact just insane people. The Soul was rebranded as the Mind, and heretics were rebranded as insane while the truth about the mind remained a mystery.