Quotes by Szasz, Thomas

Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications >>

Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine. >>

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in >>

Quotations about Psychiatry

Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married -- the >>

If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars >>

It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little fin >>

Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it.

Szasz, Thomas