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Thomas Szasz Quotes

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong Picture Quote #1

He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself Picture Quote #1

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Punishment is now unfashionable. Because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility Picture Quote #1

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults Picture Quote #1

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Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life’s currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose Picture Quote #1

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing Picture Quote #1

Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish Picture Quote #1

It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority's falsehood as truth, could be fatal Picture Quote #1

I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to the category of pseudo-science Picture Quote #1

Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit Picture Quote #1

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Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude Picture Quote #1

The FDA calls certain substances

Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment Picture Quote #1

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves Picture Quote #1

What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing Picture Quote #1

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years Picture Quote #1

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Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations Picture Quote #1

The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis Picture Quote #1

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions Picture Quote #1

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less Picture Quote #1

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A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong (Thomas Szasz Quotes) He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself (Thomas Szasz Quotes) Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults (Thomas Szasz Quotes) 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 Quotes) Punishment is now unfashionable. Because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility (Thomas Szasz Quotes) In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults (Thomas Szasz Quotes) Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life’s currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose (Thomas Szasz Quotes) 'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing (Thomas Szasz Quotes) Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish (Thomas Szasz Quotes) It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority's falsehood as truth, could be fatal (Thomas Szasz Quotes) I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to the category of pseudo-science (Thomas Szasz Quotes) Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit (Thomas Szasz Quotes) Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude (Thomas Szasz Quotes) The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens (Thomas Szasz Quotes) Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment (Thomas Szasz Quotes) Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves (Thomas Szasz Quotes) What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing (Thomas Szasz Quotes) Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years (Thomas Szasz Quotes) Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations (Thomas Szasz Quotes) The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis (Thomas Szasz Quotes) Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions (Thomas Szasz Quotes) Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less (Thomas Szasz Quotes)

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