“In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.”

—  Thomas Szasz

The Manufacture of Madness (1970) http://books.google.com/books?id=hpOcRRum3XEC&pg=PR24&q="In+the+past+men+created+witches+now+they+create+mental+patients".

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Hungarian psychiatrist 1920–2012

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