Thomas Szasz suggested that psychiatry invented mental disorders in order to wrest control over people with mental disorders from the clergy.

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Thomas Szasz was a critic of psychiatry and argued that mental illness is a myth created by society to control and regulate deviant behavior. He believed that psychiatry was a form of social control and that mental disorders were invented by psychiatry to gain power over people who were traditionally under the control of the clergy.

Thomas Szasz Suggested That Psychiatry Invented Mental Disorders in Order