Thomas Szasz
Thomas Stephen Szasz 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. 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.
Background
- Born in
- Budapest
- Educated at
- University of CincinnatiState University of New York Upstate Medical University
- Awards
- 🏆 Humanist of the Year🏆 Rollo May Award🏆 Martin Buber Award🏆 Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged
Trending & Selected Quotes
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"The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr."
"We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental illness, prevalent today."
"I started to work on this book in 1954, when, having been called to active duty in the Navy, I was relieved of the burdens of a full-time psychoanalytic practice... Within a year of its publication, t…"
"What had been drapetomania became depression. ... Modern man runs away from a life that seems to him a kind of slavery."
"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is."
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Timeline
1920
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