Mel Foster’s Reviews > The Age of Madness: The History of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization Presented in Selected Texts > Status Update

Szasz is always illuminating. This book is unusual for him, a collection of primary documents on madness (and liberty) and Szasz's incisive discussion of their significance. A captain who conned a Pennsylvania immigrant into sending his daughter to the mental ward, and then gained her indenture by paying her hospital bills. A preacher in Illinois who committed his wife for not believing in eternal security--and more