Thomas Stephen Szasz

Thomas Stephen Szasz (1920-2012), also Thomas Szasz in short, a Hungarian-US academic and psychiatrist. He was professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. He is best known as a social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry. His notable books include "The Myth of Mental Illness" (1961) and "The Manufacture of Madness" (1970).

Wisdom & Quotes

• If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

- Schizophrenia in the Second Sin

• Happiness is an imaginary condition formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

- Emotions, in The Second Sin

• Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

- Social Relations in The Second Sin

Stewart Lee Udall