Quotes by Szasz, Thomas

Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine. >>

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were a >>

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the >>

Quotations about Hospitals

The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated. >>

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a la >>

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues o >>

We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not patients: we cannot be properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently; we can do so only among those who love and value us. The result is the institutionalized dehumanization of the ill, characteristic of our age.

Szasz, Thomas