This volume contains the earliest essays, going back more than 30 years, in which the author staked out his position on 'the nature, scope, methods and u0026 values of psychiatry.'PrefacePreface to the 1st EditionAcknowledgmentsThe myth of mental illnessThe mental health ethic The rhetoric of rejectionMental health as ideologyWhat psychiatry can and u0026 cannot doBootlegging humanistic values through psychiatryThe insanity plea and u0026 the insanity verdictInvoluntary mental hospitalization: a crime against humanityMental health services in the schoolPsychiatry, the state and u0026 the university: the problem of the professional identity of academic psychiatryPsychiatric classification as a strategy of personal constraintWhither psychiatry?Index