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The Structure of Argumentation as revealed by Text AnalysisNow a method will be followed that is more or
less the opposite of the one in the previous section. Insight into an
argumentation will be derived by analyzing it more closely. Elements
will be considered in their context rather than a variety of building
blocks being presented. For this text analysis I chose Chapter 2 of The
Manufacture of Madness (pp. 28-41), a relatively short excerpt from
one
of Szasz’s most well-known writings, which deals with a more-or-less
completed subject in itself. It originated in around the middle of the
productive critical-psychiatric period until 1984. It is one of the
eight chapters in which institutional psychiatry is compared to the
Inquisition. It is titled “The Malefactor Identified” and is meant to
describe how witches were identified and how psychiatric patients are
diagnosed. The purpose of the chapter is to show how much these two
procedures resemble one another.
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