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Until recent years, "bad" and "immoral" were the terms used to spell it out folks who are now known as "sick" and "in need of treatment." Moral and spiritual point of view has been changed by medical and restorative rhetoric. It really is little question why the planet is suffering from legions of rapists, medication users, murderers, thieves, and child abusers, all of whom are now known as having one form or another of "addiction" and are thus either "sick" or suffering from "mental disease." Accordingly, modern psychotherapists declare that these are in need of specific "therapy" or "treatment" to help them "deal with their disease." Moral relativism, bolstered by psychotherapy, has prevailed over the original ideas of self-control, specific responsibility, and moral culpability. Thomas Szasz steps to demythologize psychotherapy itself in a most provocative manner.