Volume 21, Number 21 & 22 · January 23, 1975
Victims of Psychiatry
By P.B. Medawar
The Victim Is Always the Same
by I. S. Cooper MD.
Harper & Row, 160 pp., $6.95
In a passage in 'Bread and Freedom' Camus expresses his revulsion at the way in which, in political arguments, one atrocity may be bartered for another: if one protests at some enormity of the communists, three American negroes are 'thrown in one's face.' In any such disgusting attempt at outbidding, Camus says, one thing does not change—the victim, freedom. It is this reflection that gives Irving Cooper's book its title: the victim is the patient, and the aptness of the Camus quotation becomes very clear as the book goes on.
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