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206 pages including glossary, bibliography and index. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. An anthology of more than 250 chronologically arranged exerpts and articles by proponents and opponents of psychiatry's most controversial procedure, which every year is administered to hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world. "A compelling and important addition to the lay literature in this field" - Jessica Mitford, author of The American Way of Death. "What the rack and the stake were to the Inquisition, what the concentration camp and the gas chamber were to National Socialism, the mental hospital and electroshock are to Institutional Psychiatry... This book is a carefully researched documentation of psychiatry's final solution." - Thomas S. Szasz M.D., author of The Myth of Mental Illness and the Myth of Psychotherapy. Minimal high-lighting and prior owner's name inside front cover, else unmarked. Above average wear. Remains a useful working copy. Book