A Mind That Found Itself vs The manufacture of madness: Which Should You Read?

A Mind That Found Itself Clifford Whittingham Beers · 1908 ★★★★☆ 3.8 132 pages · ≈ 2 h 27 m · Challenging

This book tells the story of a young man who is gradually enveloped by a psychosis. His well-meaning family commits him to a series of mental hospitals, but he is brutalized by the treatment, and his moments of fleeting…

The manufacture of madness Thomas Stephen Szasz · 1970 ★★★★☆ 4.1 383 pages · ≈ 7 h 06 m · Moderate

Intends to show that the belief in mental illness and the social actions to which it leads have the same moral implications and political consequences as had the belief in witchcraft and the social actions to which it…