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Thomas Szasz

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It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.


— Thomas Szasz


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If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.


— Thomas Szasz


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He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.


— Thomas Szasz


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The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.


— Thomas Szasz


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There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.


— Thomas Szasz


#biography #only #psychology

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.


— Thomas Szasz


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Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.


— Thomas Szasz


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There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.


— Thomas Szasz


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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.


— Thomas Szasz


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A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.


— Thomas Szasz


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Syracuse New York: Syracuse University Press. 2004. James M.

His views on special treatment followed from classical liberal roots which are based on the principles that each person has the right to bodily and mental self-ownership and the right to be free from violence from others although he criticized the "Free World" as well as the communist states for their use of psychiatry and "drogophobia". In 1973 the American Humanist Association named him Humanist of the Year and in 1979 he was honored with an honorary doctorate in behavioral science at Universidad Francisco Marroquín.

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