Introduction: The Medical Model as the Ideology of the Therapeutic State Ronald Leifer, Ithaca, New York The Journal of Mind and Behavior , Summer 1990, Vol. 11, No. 3, Pages 247 [1]-258 [12], ISSN 0271-0137, ISBN 0-930195-05-1 The modern, therapeutic state came into existence as a result of the political transformation from Rule of Man to