“My holy of holies is... freedom from power and lies, whatever the last two may be expressed in.” With these words from Chekhov from a letter to the publisher, Professor Thomas Szasz prefaced the preface to the publication of the Russian translation of his fundamental work, “The Myth of Mental Illness.” Faith in Liberty: The Practice of Psychiatry and the Principles of Libertarianism, written 43 years later, represents Thomas Szasz's most insightful examination of the threats to personal freedom posed by the merging of psychiatry and the state. Why and how did the best minds in the West, who were thinking about political and economic freedom, lose their presence of mind in the face of psychiatric patronizing rhetoric? The answers to this question - with examples ranging from the classics of liberalism to the founders of the Austrian school of economics and the leading libertarians of our time - equip the average person with a fundamental understanding of the problems of everyday existence that, strictly speaking, the reader is unlikely to find anywhere else. In addition to the general reader, the book will be useful to doctors, lawyers, and anyone interested in both the problems of economics and psychiatry, and the concepts of freedom and responsibility.