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Thomas Szasz | |
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Szász Tamás István | |
Born | Thomas Stephen Szasz April 15, 1920 |
Died | September 8, 2012 Manlius, New York, U.S.[3] | (aged 92)
Citizenship | Hungary, United States |
Alma mater | University of Cincinnati |
Known for | Criticism of psychiatry |
Spouse | Rosine Loshkajian (m. 1951; died 1971) |
Children | 2 |
Awards | Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged (1974),[1] Martin Buber Award (1974), Humanist Laureate Award (1995), Great Lake Association of Clinical Medicine Patients' Rights Advocate Award (1995), American Psychological Association Rollo May Award (1998)[2] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Psychiatry |
Institutions | State University of New York Upstate Medical University |
Website | szasz |
Thomas Stephen Szasz (/sɑːs/ SAHSS; Hungarian: Szász Tamás István [saːs]; 15 April 1920 – 8 September 2012) was a Hungarian-American academic and psychiatrist. He served for most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York.[4] A distinguished lifetime fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a life member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he was best known as a social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, as what he saw as the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as scientism.
His books The Myth of Mental Illness (1961) and The Manufacture of Madness (1970) set out some of the arguments most associated with him.[5]
Szasz argued throughout his career that mental illness is a metaphor for human problems in living, and that mental illnesses are not "illnesses" in the sense that physical illnesses are, and that except for a few identifiable brain diseases, there are "neither biological or chemical tests nor biopsy or necropsy findings for verifying DSM diagnoses."[6]
Szasz maintained throughout his career that he was not anti-psychiatry but rather that he opposed coercive psychiatry. He was a staunch opponent of civil commitment and involuntary psychiatric treatment, but he believed in and practiced psychiatry and psychotherapy between consenting adults.
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