This volume contains early essays, going back more than thirty years, in which the author staked out his position on 'the nature, scope, methods & values of psychiatry': * Preface * Preface to the 1st Edition * Acknowledgements * Introduction * The Myth of Mental Illness * The Mental Health Ethic * The Rhetoric of Rejection * Mental Health as Ideology * What Psychiatry Can & Cannot Do * Bootlegging Humanistic Values Thru Psychiatry * The Insanity Plea & the Insanity Verdict * Involuntary Mental Hospitalization * Mental Health Services in the School * Psychiatry, the State & the University * Psychiatric Classification as a Strategy of Personal Constraint * Whither Psychiatry? * Index