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David Thomas Szast, age 52, Chandler, AZ View Details

Cities: Chandler AZ, Gilbert AZ Possible Relatives: Thomas L Szast, Heather L Warnes, Michael P Warnes

Thomas Joseph Szwast, age 60s, Saint Clair Shores, MI View Details

Locations: Saint Clair Shores MI, Harrison Township MI Possible Relatives: Kathleen Anne Jacob, Shirley Marie Kollar, David Edward Szwast

T J Stuart, age 60s, Johnstown, PA View Details

Locations: Johnstown PA, Conemaugh PA Possible Relatives: Paulette B Szwast, Zachary J Szwast

Thomas Szasz: An Evaluation - Psychology Today • psychologytoday.com

Thomas Szasz famously was a polarizing figure, and he appeared to revel in it. He is seen by his supporters, mostly citizens who are critical of the psychiatric system, as a courageous man who ...

Thomas Szasz: rebel with a questionable cause - The Lancet • thelancet.com

Thomas Szasz challenged mental health practice perhaps more than any other American psychiatrist in the decades after World War 2. He did so by turning against his own specialty. In addition to contemporaries R D Laing in the UK, the Canadian sociologist Erving Goffman, and the French philosopher Michel Foucault, Szasz provided much of the high octane intellectual fuel for the genesis of the ...

Revisiting Szasz: Myth, Metaphor, and Misconception • psychologytoday.com

It should also be noted that Thomas Szasz was the first American psychiatrist to speak out against the classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder, and although it is Robert Spitzer who ...

Dr. Thomas Szasz, Psychiatrist Who Led Movement Against His Field, Dies ... • nytimes.com

Thomas Stephen Szasz was born in Budapest on April 15, 1920, the second child of Julius Szasz, a lawyer, and the former Lily Wellisch. The family moved to Cincinnati in 1938, where the boy became ...

No such thing as mental illness? Critical reflections on the major ... • nih.gov

Abstract. Enfant terrible of psychiatry and widely known as one of its most indefatigable as well as iconoclastic critics, Thomas Szasz (1961-2012) had a prolific writing career that extended some 51 years beyond the publication of his first book, The Myth of Mental Illness, in 1961.This editorial identifies and critically discusses three major themes in Szasz's writings: his contention that ...

CCHR Co-founder Dr. Thomas Szasz Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus • cchrint.org

Dr. Thomas Szasz was a Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University of New York, Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, Distinguished Lifetime Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association whose long list of educational accomplishments, credentials, honors, biographical listings and awards speak for themselves. Considered by many scholars and academics to be psychiatry's most ...

A Celebration of the Life and Work of Thomas Szasz • upstate.edu

A Celebration of the Life and Work of Thomas Szasz Brilliant, thought-provoking and the world's most recognized psychiatrist over the past 50 years, Dr. Szasz was Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse since 1956 (Emeritus since 1990), Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and ...

About Dr. Thomas Szasz - CCHR International - The Mental Health ... • cchrint.org

View Szasz's Curriculum Vitae Dr. Thomas Szasz is Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University of New York Health Science Center, Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute and a Lifetime Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is perhaps the world's leading social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, having authored

The Thomas S. Szasz Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility • szasz.com

Thomas Szasz deemed mental illness a mythic and monstrous beast, and proclaimed that 'mental illness' was a fiction. Insanity, he has continued ever since to claim, is not a real disease, whose nature has been progressively scientifically unveiled; mental illness is rather a myth, forged by psychiatrists for their own greater glory. ...