Originally published in 1973, this book is about people and psychiatry. About people who rejected psychiatry as it was generally practised at the time, people w

“The landmark book that argued that psychiatry consistently expands its definition of mental illness to impose its authority over moral and cultural conflict.

In this stirring and beautifully written wake-up call, psychiatrist Daniel Carlat writes with bracing honesty about how psychiatry has so largely forsaken the p