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Thomas Szasz Quotes

1920–2012 United States

Thomas Szasz (April 15, 1920 – September 8, 2012) was a Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York, and a noted critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry.

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Also known as: Szasz, Myth of Mental Illness, Szaszian

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Although both the natural and moral sciences seek to understand the objects of their observation, in natural science the purpose of this is to be able to control them better, whereas in moral science it is, or ought to be, to be better able to leave them alone. The morally proper aim of psychology, then, is self-control.

The Second Sin (1973)

Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.

The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary (1990)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Szasz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.