Thomas Szasz
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Szasz was a professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University and a leading critic of coercive psychiatry.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 15 Apr 1920, Budapest, Hungary (opens wiqqi.app)
- Died: 8 Sep 2012, by suicide after a painful spinal fracture, according to his colleague Jeff Schaler (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: BS in physics and MD, University of Cincinnati; psychoanalytic training in Chicago from 1951 to 1956 (opens wiqqi.app)
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Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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4 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
- Mental illness is a myth (opens korrents.com)
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Psychiatrists do not actually deal with mental illnesses and their treatment (opens korrents.com)
“Psychiatrists are not concerned with mental illnesses and their treatments.”
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Outside psychiatry, mental illness is too often whatever psychiatrists say it is (opens korrents.com)
“In nonpsychiatric circles mental illness all too often is considered to be whatever psychiatrists say it is.”