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	Thomas Szasz - Unmasking the Quackery of Psychiatry
		Thomas Szasz - Unmasking the Quackery of Psychiatry
		Thomas Szasz was a true pioneer and we owe him an immeasurable debt of gratitude for the reforms now on the horizon.
		The Thomas Szasz, M.D. Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility
	www.bigeye.com /szasz.htm (289 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Thomas Szasz
		Thomas Stephen Szasz (born April_15, 1920 in Hungary) is Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York.
		Szasz is a principled libertarian who believes that the practice of medicine, use and sale of drugs, and sexual relations, should be private, contractual, and outside of state jurisdiction.
		Szasz is often said to be allied with the anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Thomas_Szasz (732 words)

	INTRODUCTION
		This web site is dedicated to the life and work of Thomas S. asz, M.D. In it you will find information from friends and colleagues sharing similar points of view to those of Thomas Szasz on diverse topics ranging from psychiatry and law, to drugs and addiction, to psychotherapy and public policy.
		Born in Budapest in 1920, Thomas Szasz came to this country in 1938 from his native Hungary and within a few months was admitted to the University of Cincinnati.
		Later, Szasz took his psychoanalytic training at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and for the next five years was a member of its staff--taking twenty-four months out for active duty with the U.S. Navy.
	www.szasz.com /intro.html (489 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Psychiatric Slavery, by Thomas Szasz; Schizophrenia, by Thomas Szasz; Karl Kraus and the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Psychiatric Slavery, by Thomas Szasz; Schizophrenia, by Thomas Szasz; Karl Kraus and the Soul-Doctors, by Thomas Szasz
		...Thomas Szasz, a professor of psychiatry and the author of numerous works on the subject, is certainly among the most dedicated and prolific skeptics...
		...Szasz's militant humanism, which pervades all of his work, constitutes both his weakness (as when he insists that society may never step decisively between the madman and his delusion) and his strength (as when he is dissecting the "antipsychiatry" movement associated with R. Laing...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V64I1P73-1.htm (1198 words)

	Rothbard on Szasz
		While Szasz says that he favors the injection of ethics into psychiatry, it has nothing to do with the traditional concept of ethics, but is instead involved in his preposterous "games" and their "rules," and is hardly a conscious ethical system of any sort.
		Szasz’ fundamental philosophic error, perhaps, is his deliberate overthrowing of thinking in terms of "entities" and "substances," i.e.
		Szasz’ attempted positive psychiatric theory, therefore, must be set down as a complete failure, based completely as it is on fallacious and even mischievous modern developments in philosophy and in the social sciences.
	www.lewrockwell.com /rothbard/rothbard14.html (598 words)

	Szasz, Thomas
		Szasz is featured on the libertarion Laissez Faire Books Webpage, and his criticism of US drug policies is widely cited.
		Szasz borrows terminology from a variety of philosophers of science, logicians, and linguists, including the distinctions between "object" and "metalanguage" (cf.
		Szasz's main point is that "hysteria" can be seen as a "non-discursive language" -- i.e., a means of communicating that does not follow conventional, shared, explicit rules of conversation.
	www.haverford.edu /psych/ddavis/psych309/szasz.htm (619 words)

	The Szasz Blog: Cruising Szasz by Jeffrey A. Schaler
		Szasz has upset many psychiatrists over the years because he is a member of the psychiatry and psychoanalysis clubs criticizing its own.
		Szasz is best known for his insistence that “mental illness” is a metaphor, and that we go astray if we take the metaphor literally.
		What Szasz objects to is forcing people to see (or not see) a psychiatrist, to reside or not reside in a mental hospital, to partake (or not partake) of drugs, and to believe (or not believe) in any specific set of ideas.
	theszaszblog.blogspot.com /2005/07/cruising-szasz-by-jeffrey-schaler.html (1089 words)

	Reason Magazine - Curing the Therapeutic State: Thomas Szasz interviewed by Jacob Sullum
		Szasz: Although we agreed on the criticism of traditional psychiatry, they somehow never made it clear that bodily diseases--pneumonia, cancer, and so on--are real, but mental diseases are metaphoric diseases, in the sense of a "sick" joke.
		Szasz: That's not for me to say, but my feeling is that the inconsistency does not impede the spread of this practice, as illustrated by the cases of John Hinckley and Ted Kaczynski.
		Szasz: Probably the reason why the drug warriors are so upset is that they think this will have a kind of a domino effect, that we have to fight the enemy here; otherwise he is going to move somewhere else.
	www.reason.com /news/show/27767.html (6369 words)

	articlesp01a (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Thomas Szasz was born in Budapest, Hungary, on April 15, 1920, to Julius Szász, a wealthy businessman and lawyer, and Lily Wellisch Szász.
		Szasz was the most exciting teacher in the psychiatry department from the 1950s to the 1970s, and very popular with residents.
		Szasz’s life’s mission is to wrest artificial controls on natural individual freedoms away from politicians, clergy, physicians, lawyers, insurers, bureaucrats, etc., and return those freedoms to the individual.
	www.upstate.edu /medalumni/su01articled.shtml (1918 words)

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		As Szasz critically observes: It is wonderfully revealing of the nature of psychiatry that whereas in natural science there is a premium on the expert observer's ability to understand what he observes...
		Szasz's philosophy of mind is unquestionably contrarian, and often provokes negative reactions. The remainder of this essay maintains that — unlike the standard view of mental illness - Szasz's main theses are strikingly consistent with basic microeconomics.
		Szasz asks: "If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would psychiatrists look for their chemical and genetic causes?" (1990, p.216) It would be a mistake to interpret his rhetorical question as an attack on genetics and brain research.
	www.gmu.edu /departments/economics/bcaplan/szaszjhe.doc (9727 words)

	Books by Thomas S. Szasz
		Thomas S. asz, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the SUNY Health Sciences Center in Syracuse, is the premier critic of psychiatric coercions, excuses, and mendacity.
		Szasz's most important contribution is his unrelenting insistence that legislating individual moral (and here, chemical) purity is utterly inconsistent with the principle of personal liberal democracy.
		Szasz explores the racial aspects of drug prohibition -- drug enforcers are far more likely to accost fls than whites -- and suggests a connection between drug prohibition and the personal dread of the availability of an easy and pleasurable way to commit suicide.
	www.iatrogenic.org /Booksale/szaszbooks.html (688 words)

	New Therapist - Thomas Szasz on the future of psychotherapy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Today, the term "psychotherapy" is used to refer to all manner of interventions, ranging from a voluntary dialogue to electrical, pharmacological, and surgical procedures imposed on persons against their will.
		Thomas Szasz is Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York.
		Szasz is recognized as a foremost critic of psychiatric coercions and excuses.
	www.newtherapist.com /szasz.html (1130 words)

	Pharmacracy — www.greenwood.com
		Szasz's quotable style, thoughtful delving beneath the surface, and often striking analogies should once again stimulate vigorous discussion in several fields.
		Professor Szasz presents a subtle, learned and exhaustive analysis of the difference between medical illness and mental illness and of the harm from confounding the one with the other.
		This time Szasz is attacking 'pharmacracy' as a totalitarian, politics-ridden, individual-responsibility-shunning 'Therapeutic State' in which health care professionals act as 'certifying agents' and treatment providers for self indulgence, disability, and other socially undesirable behavior that are now diagnosed as diseases.
	www.greenwood.com /books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=C7196&imprintID=I1 (557 words)

	ipedia.com: Thomas Szasz Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Thomas Szasz (born 1920) is Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York.
		Szasz' view of psychiatry as a tool of behavior control can be seen as related to the work of Chomsky, whose works Necessary Illusions and Manufacturing Consent address thought and behavior control in democratic societies via propaganda.
		Szasz is, together with the Church of Scientology, a founder of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights.
	www.ipedia.com /thomas_szasz.html (673 words)

	THOMAS SZASZ AND SLAVESPEAK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Szasz is also regarded by some as "the most controversial psychiatrist in the world." He displays the fearless courage to question the most fundamental tenets of the entire "profession" of psychiatry.
		Szasz suggests a "scapegoat theory of witchcraft": "I submit that witchcraft represents the expression of a particular method by means of which men have sought to explain and master various ills of nature.
		Szasz suggests that Rush's tranquilizing chair was an adaptation of the "witch chair," used during the Inquisition to torture witches.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/518638/posts (6928 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Thus, for Szasz, the so-called mentally ill individual is identified as an eccentric by the modern day "therapeutic state" and deemed to serve as the scapegoat for the sins of a given society through the process of forced confinement.
		Szasz would argue for example that the removal of both masturbation and homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses in the _DSM_ proves that these so called "illnesses" are nothing more than social constructs reflecting the dominant morality of the era.
		Thomas Szasz is a real hero of consciousness, freedom and intelligence who is never afraid to disclose the information that hurts the orthodoxy where it counts.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0815604610 (1819 words)

	Appendix 45 - Szasz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz has led an attack against the mental health system for over 40 years and has challenged the very concept of mental illness.
		In general, Szasz believes persons are committed because they serve as an annoyance to other members of society and there is no other legal manner to get rid of them.
		One commentator describes Szasz's concept of mental illness as facilitating a kind of moral slight-of-hand by which the true function of psychiatry (social control) is disguised as beneficence towards the sick.
	upalumni.org /medschool/appendices/appendix-45.html (549 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 27, No. 4 - January 1971 - BOOK REVIEW - The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the ...
		institutional psychiatry does sometimes have the oppressive effects that Szasz; holds to be not only their universal effect, but also the intended effect of administrators and psychiatrists who do have as a dominant motivation that of controlling and dominating their patients.
		But Szasz has blown these phenomena up into a single-minded purpose of such proportions that it is hard to believe that a man of his obvious intelligence could entertain the idea of so simplifying the multifaceted motives of such diverse a group of men.
		I hope that Szasz's next work will be a case book of actual cases of oppression (which I agree would not be too hard to find) of the mentally ill, rather than another over-generalized broadside.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jan1971/v27-4-bookreview6.htm (614 words)

	Psychiatry, SSRI's, Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Luvox, Effexor, Serzone, Anafranil, Fenfluramine, Fen-phen, Redux, ...
		By Thomas S. asz, M.D. Thomas S. asz, M.D. demonstrates that what is nowadays accepted as mental illness is whatever psychiatrists say it is-and that psychiatry has-with increasing zeal, defined more and more kinds of behavior as "mental illness." What is termed "mental illness" is in fact behavior disapproved of by the speaker.
		Szasz to expose the myths and misconceptions surrounding insanity and the practice of psychiatry.
		Szasz, M.D. exposed and critically evaluated the cherished assumptions and misconceptions at the heart of psychiatry.
	www.outlookcities.com /psych (2030 words)

	THOMAS SZASZ/AMITAI ETZIONi
		Szasz was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1920.
		Szasz compares the alliance between the state and the medical establishment (powerful organizations such as the AMA) to the union of church and state during the Spanish Inquisition.
		Szasz's main argument is this--it is not the substance itself, its chemical properties, which drives policy decisions about its legality; it is the arbitrary moral codes of those in power which define some activities as sinful and others as praiseworthy.
	www.sheftman.com /ewrt1a/szasetz (1686 words)

	Classics in the History of Psychology -- Szasz (1960)
		I submit that the idea of mental illness is now being put to work to obscure certain difficulties which at present may be inherent -- not that they need be unmodifiable -- in the social intercourse of persons.
		SZASZ, T. The problem of psychiatric nosology: A contribution to a situational analysis of psychiatric operations.
		Szasz has informed me, however, that it "was a typo, which [he] corrected when [he] reprinted the piece, e.g., in
	psychclassics.yorku.ca /Szasz/myth.htm (4230 words)

	Mental illness: Psychiatry’s phlogiston, by Thomas Szasz
		Thomas Szasz is Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York, Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, Washington, D.C., author and lecturer.
		Thomas Szasz was born in Budapest in 1920 and came to this country in 1938 from his native Hungary and within a few months was admitted to the University of Cincinnati.
		Later, Szasz took his psychoanalytic training at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and for the next five years was a member of its staff--taking twenty-four months out for active duty with the U.S. Navy.
	www.academyanalyticarts.org /szasz.htm (1352 words)

	Prometheus Books
		Szasz argues that "mental illness" and its supposed "cure," psychotherapy, are myths and that there is no medical basis for treating people labelled "mentally ill" as sick.
		Thomas Szasz: Primary Values and Major Contentions is the first book to contain Szasz's essential values as well as criticism of Szasz and responses from his defenders.
		Szasz's own words comprise the bulk of the book, which is designed as a means of introducing readers to Szasz without having to read all of his original works.
	www.prometheusbooks.com /catalog/book_590.html (232 words)

	Thomas Szasz - Wikiquote
		Thomas Szasz (born April 15, 1920 in Budapest, Hungary) was a Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York.
		Szasz is a critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry.
		In 1969, Szasz co-founded, and was the first director of, Scientology's anti-psychiatry front group Citizens Commission on Human Rights.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Thomas_Szasz (431 words)

	Thomas Szasz
		Those of you who are interested in the sad story of my deranged attempts to consider intelligently the attacks on Szasz's theories and the rebuttals to these attacks may wish to pick up a copy of a handout I have brought.
		People like Szasz and his proponents don't care about the mentally ill, their families, or the citizens they sometimes victimize, and would just turn them loose to fend for themselves, even if that means suffering as homeless vagrants.
		In contrast to Szasz's orientation, an advantage of the illness model is that it destigmatizes the mentally ill. Szasz, Laing and others who hold theories that involve psychodynamic and family dynamic causation stigmatize the patients and their families, putting counter-productive guilt and blame on them.
	www.oikos.org /Szasz.htm (1606 words)

	Laissez Faire Books
		It is only just, therefore, that an effort be made to perpetuate the work of Thomas Szasz, by recognizing and honoring those who follow in his footsteps.
		The Thomas S. asz Award is a tribute conferred annually by the Center for Independent Thought (LFB's parent organization) on a person or organization, American or foreign, judged to have contributed in an outstanding degree to the cause of civil liberty.
		Ron Leifer for championing Thomas Szasz's views on mental illness, liberty, and responsibility in his private practice as psychiatrist, in his writing and teaching, and in his psychiatric testimonies.
	www.lfb.com /index.php?action=help&helpfile=szaszaw.htm (849 words)

	[Hpn] Anti-Psychiatry: Dr. Thomas SZASZ honored by Citizens Commission on Human Rights FWD Human Rights FWD
		Szasz would know; with his 80th birthday this month, he celebrates more than half a century of front-line psychiatric experience, observation and debate.
		As Szasz noted, ``My urgings that psychiatrists confront the legitimacy of their power have forced them to chew on a bone that got stuck in their throat.
		One specific focus of Szasz's razor-sharp analysis was the move from involuntary hospitalization to involuntary (enforced) treatment in the community.
	projects.is.asu.edu /pipermail/hpn/2000-May/000729.html (685 words)

	The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz - Scientism, Scientific Mythology
		In this book he discusses in detail the history of medicine, the metaphorical nature of the use of terms like "ill" and "sick" in relation to a "mind", and how the ideology of psychiatry is false and leads to oppression of the public.
		Szasz shows the concept of "mental illness" to be as flimsy as were the past similar stigmatizing concepts of "witchcraft" and "heresy".
		Szasz argues convincingly against the entire psychiatric paradigm while clearly showing it's primary nature as a modern "scientific" mythology.
	www.ftrbooks.net /psych/szasz/myth_mental_illness.htm (417 words)

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