Thomas Szasz quotes
Thomas Szasz was a Hungarian-American psychiatrist and academic, known for his criticism of the foundations of psychiatry. His groundbreaking works challenged the concept of mental illness as a medical disease. He became a leading figure in movements advocating for personal freedom and responsibility in mental health. Here are 104 of his quotes:
As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal followers of his own person-so the noble rhetorician uses language to wean men away from their inclination to depend on authority, to encourage them to think and speak clearly, and to teach them to be their own masters.
Thomas Szasz
The great shift ... is the movement away from the value-laden languages of ... the "humanities,” and toward the ostensibly value-neutral languages of the "sciences.” This attempt to escape from, or to deny, valuation is ... especially important in psychology ... and the so-called social sciences. Indeed, one could go so far as to say that the specialized languages of these disciplines serve virtually no other purpose than to conceal valuation behind an ostensibly scientific and therefore nonvaluational semantic screen.
Thomas Szasz
As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of madness arose and became of great social significance. In the next chapter I shall examine the creation of social deviants, and shall show that as formerly priests had manufactured heretics, so physicians, as the new guardians of social conduct and morality, began to manufacture madmen.
Thomas Szasz
Thomas Szasz
Occupation: American PsychologistBorn: April 15, 1920
Died: September 8, 2012
Quotes count: 104
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