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Thomas Szasz Quotes


A psychiatrist and academic.
Thomas Stephen Szasz (saas) (born April 15, 1920), is a psychiatrist and academic. Since 1990 he has been Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York. He is a well-known social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, and of the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as of scientism. His books The Myth of Mental Illness (1960) and The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1970) set out some of the arguments with which he is most associated.

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The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.

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If you talk to God you are praying; if God talks to you you have schizophrenia.

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Happiness is ... usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.

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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

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Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

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The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

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The proverb warns that 'You should not bite that hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

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Formerly when religion was strong and science weak men mistook magic for medicine; now when science is strong and religion weak men mistake medicine for magic.

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Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men which to the democratic mind are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.