Psychiatric Slavery

Psychiatric Slavery is a book by psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Szasz. He equates the coercive psychiatric system that involves involuntary treatment and commitment as being not totally unlike chattel slavery. The psychiatric slave holder who involuntarily "treats" his patients benefits from the relationship, while the supposed patient may not. Szasz equates any attempt to refine the ability to involuntary treat someone, opposed to abolishing involuntary treatment all-together, as beautifying a plantation holding slaves and/or treating them better - analogously, the slaves still are slaves.