Who is Thomas Szasz
Thomas Stephen Szasz ( SAHSS; Hungarian: Szász Tamás István [saːs]; 15 April 1920 – 8 September 2012) was a Hungarian-American academic and psychiatrist. He served for most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. A distinguished lifetime fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a life member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he was best known as a social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, as what he saw as the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as scientism. His books The Myth of Mental Illness (1961) and The Manufacture of Madness (1970) set out some of the arguments most associated with him.Szasz argued throughout hi...
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- Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
- Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
- If you talk to God, you are praying If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
- Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
- Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
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Trutherbotprop: "the battle for the world is the battle for definitions." --thomas szaszAimeeterese: m scott peck, theodore dalrymple and thomas szasz are good. most of them are ridiculous.
Wokeofshame: "it's not science! politics & economics! that's what psychiatry is, politics & economics! behavior control, it's not science, it's not medicine" thomas szasz psychiatrist & cofounder of the citizens commission on human rights (cchr) to oppose involuntary psychiatric treatments.
Trutherbotprop: "the battle for the world is the battle for definitions." --thomas szasz
Cryptocesar26: the proverb warns that, 'you should not bite the hand that feeds you.' but maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. -thomas stephen szasz
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