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What was the main argument of his book The Manufacture of Madness in 1970?

  • It was an Autobiography

  • It Praised Psychiatry

  • It was a Work of Fiction

  • It Criticized Psychiatry

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In his 1970 book "The Manufacture of Madness," Thomas Szasz argues that the concept of mental illness is a myth and that psychiatry is a form of social control. He contends that people who are labeled as mentally ill are not actually sick but rather are simply non-conforming or deviant.
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