Title: Madness
Product review: Torrey is psychiatry's Torquemada. There is no limit to the "scientific" tortures that he supports applying to unwilling to heretics labeled "schizophrenic." There are a couple of dicey problems. The people so labeled rarely believe themselves to be sick, and there is no biological test that can demonstrate that they are so. The "schizophrenics" act in ways that bother other people, and professionals like Torrey become influential and wealthy by diagnosing and "treating" them (against their will). The pseudoscience that Torrey promotes in this book has been thoroughly debunked by Thomas Szasz and others. (It was Szasz who wryly noted, "If you talk to God, you are praying, If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.") This book should actually be titled, "How to be rid of odd and unpopular people."
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