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The Reality of Mental Illness Edgar Award for Best Novel (1965) The national bestselling author ofThis book is psychiatry's reply to the diverse group of antipsychiatrists, including Laing, Foucault, Goffman, Szasz, and Bassaglia, that has made fashionable the view that mental illness is merely socially deviant behavior and that psychiatrists are agents of the capitalist society seeking to repress such behavior. It establishes, by the use of evidence from historical and transcultural studies, that mental illness has been recognized in all cultures