Quotes About Thomas Szasz

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.

Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

renowned psychologist, Thomas Szasz, the term problems in living is far preferable to the term mental illness, for it points us in the direction of what really needs to be done to help kids with concerning behaviors: solve the problems that are causing those behaviors.

The maliciousness of psychiatry is that it promotes itself as a medical discipline, although it is actually only part of the state authority.24 Therein

Incarceration in a mental hospital is unlawful deprivation of liberty, that mental illnesses are fictitious diseases, and that coercive psychiatry is social control, not medical care.

You have to know history to appreciate the absurdity of what is called the 'medical model', because it's simply absurd.

Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic "causes" of these "conditions"?