Thomas Szasz

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According to Wikipedia, Thomas Stephen Szasz was a Hungarian-American academic and psychiatrist. He served for most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. A distinguished lifetime fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a life member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he was best known as a social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, as what he saw as the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as scientism.

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The Myth of Mental Illness (1961) (1653)
A contribution to the philosophy of medicine; the basic models of the doctor-patient relationship. (1956) (903)
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct (1965) (750)
The ethics of psychoanalysis (1965) (355)
Bad habits are not diseases. A refutation of the claim that alcoholism is a disease. (1972) (286)
Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry (1964) (220)
Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts and Pushers (1974) (205)
Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man (1970) (179)
The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1971) (167)
Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry (1976) (136)
Law, Liberty, And Psychiatry: An Inquiry Into The Social Uses Of Mental Health Practices (1989) (132)
Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences (1988) (110)
The Second Sin (1973) (106)
THE CONCEPT OF TRANSFERENCE. (1963) (95)
A social history of madness: stories of the insane (1988) (89)
The psychiatric will. A new mechanism for protecting persons against "psychosis" and psychiatry. (1982) (85)
The uses of naming and the origin of the myth of mental illness. (1961) (79)
The myth of psychotherapy. (1974) (78)
The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 1: conceptual and definitional issues in psychiatric diagnosis (2012) (77)
Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America (2001) (70)
Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide (1998) (62)
Coercion as cure : a critical history of psychiatry (2009) (58)
The Ethics of Suicide (1971) (56)
Sex by prescription (1980) (49)
Defining Disease: The Gold Standard of Disease versus the Fiat Standard of Diagnosis (2006) (47)
Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market (1992) (46)
The problem of psychiatric nosology; a contribution to a situational analysis of psychiatric operations. (1957) (45)
The Role of Hostility in the Pathogenesis of Peptic Ulcer: Theoretical Considerations with the Report of a Case (1947) (42)
The ethics of psychoanalysis : the theory and method of autonomous psychotherapy (1969) (41)
Psychiatry and the control of dangerousness: on the apotropaic function of the term “mental illness” (2003) (39)
Pain and Pleasure: A Study of Bodily Feelings (1988) (38)
Psycho-analytic training: a socio-psychological analysis of its history and present status. (1958) (38)
The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 3: issues of utility and alternative approaches in psychiatric diagnosis (2012) (37)
The sane slave. An historical note on the use of medical diagnosis as justificatory rhetoric. (1971) (36)
Malingering: diagnosis or social condemnation? Analysis of the meaning of diagnosis in the light of some interrelations of social structure, value judgment, and the physician's role. (1956) (36)
The myth of mental illness: 50 years later (2011) (35)
The theology of medicine (1977) (35)
The theology of medicine : the political-philosophical foundations of medical ethics (1977) (33)
Mental illness is still a myth (1994) (32)
The doctor-patient relationship and its historical context. (1958) (31)
The ethics of addiction. (1971) (30)
The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: A pluralogue part 2: Issues of conservatism and pragmatism in psychiatric diagnosis (2012) (28)
The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing as Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression (2015) (28)
The Ethics of Addiction (1972) (27)
Schizophrenia: the sacred symbol of psychiatry. (1976) (26)
The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary (1990) (26)
Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry (2002) (26)
The therapeutic state : psychiatry in the mirror of current events (1984) (26)
The Medicalization of Everyday Life (2007) (25)
Second Commentary on "Aristotle's Function Argument" (2000) (25)
On the theory of psychoanalytic treatment. (1957) (25)
Some observations on the use of tranquilizing drugs. (1957) (25)
Some observations on the relationship between psychiatry and the law. (1956) (24)
The Age Of Madness - The History Of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization Presented In Selected Texts (1975) (24)
Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted (1994) (24)
The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality, and Neuroscience (2002) (23)
A Lexicon of Lunacy: Metaphoric Malady, Moral Responsibility, and Psychiatry (1993) (22)
Mental Illness as a Metaphor (1973) (22)
Psychiatric aspects of vagotomy; phantom ulcer pain. (1949) (22)
The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue. Part 4: general conclusion (2012) (21)
The psychiatrist as double agent (1967) (21)
The Psychiatric Will (2017) (20)
Antipsychiatry: Quackery Squared (2009) (20)
Voluntary mental hospitalization. An unacknowledged practice of medical fraud. (1972) (20)
Thomas Szasz: Primary Values and Major Contentions (1982) (20)
The Role of the Counterphobic Mechanism in Addiction (1958) (20)
A contribution to the psychology of schizophrenia. (1957) (19)
Diagnoses are not diseases (1991) (19)
Psychiatric Aspects of Vagotomy: II. A Psychiatric Study of Vagotomized Ulcer Patients with Comments on Prognosis (1949) (19)
Medicine and madness (1975) (19)
The communication of distress between child and parent. (1959) (19)
Psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatric power and psychiatric abuse. (1994) (19)
The Ego, The Body, And Pain (1955) (18)
On The Experiences of the Analyst in the Psychoanalytic Situation: A Contribution to the Theory of Psychoanalytic Treatment (1956) (18)
The Age of Madness (1973) (17)
Psychiatry, Anti-Psychiatry, Critical Psychiatry: What Do These Terms Mean? (2010) (16)
From Contract to Status via Psychiatry (1973) (16)
Bad Habits are not Diseases (1972) (16)
Sex: Facts, Frauds and Follies (1981) (15)
A theory of the pathogenesis of ordinary human baldness. (1950) (15)
From the slaughterhouse to the madhouse. (1971) (14)
Physiologic and Psychodynamic Mechanisms in Constipation and Diarrhea (1951) (14)
Psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychology. (1959) (14)
Debunking Antipsychiatry: Laing, Law, and Largactil (2008) (13)
Psychiatry, Ethics, and the Criminal Law (1958) (13)
Politics and mental health: some remarks apropos of the case of Mr. Ezra Pound. (1958) (13)
“Idiots, infants, and the insane”: mental illness and legal incompetence (2005) (13)
The psychology of bodily feelings in schizophrenia. (1957) (13)
The Concept of Mental Illness: Explanation or Justification? (1977) (12)
Anti-Freud : Karl Kraus's criticism of psychoanalysis and psychiatry (1990) (12)
Scientific method and social role in medicine and psychiatry. (1958) (12)
PSYCHIATRY: RHETORIC AND REALITY (1985) (12)
Schizophrenia — a category error (1978) (12)
Psychosomatic Aspects of Salivary Activity: II. Psychoanalytic Observations Concerning Hypersalivation (1950) (12)
On the psychoanalytic theory of instincts. (1952) (12)
The myth of psychotherapy. (1974) (11)
COMMITMENT OF THE MENTALLY ILL: “TREATMENT” OR SOCIAL RESTRAINT? (1957) (11)
The nature of pain. (1955) (11)
The therapeutic state (1984) (11)
Law and psychiatry: The problems that will not go away. (1990) (11)
The Criminal, the Judge, and the Public: A Psychological Analysis. (1957) (11)
THE MORAL DILEMMA OF PSYCHIATRY: AUTONOMY OR HETERONOMY? (1964) (11)
A QUESTIONNAIRE STUDY OF PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICES AND OPINIONS. (1963) (10)
MIND TAPPING: PSYCHIATRIC SUBVERSION OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS (1962) (10)
My Madness Saved Me: The Madness and Marriage of Virginia Woolf (1987) (10)
A contribution to the psychology of bodily feelings. (1957) (9)
The Myth of Mental Illness: 50 years after publication: What does it mean today? (2010) (9)
Factors in the Pathogenesis of Peptic Ulcer: Some Critical Comments on a Recent Article by George F. Mahl (1949) (9)
THE CASE AGAINST COMPULSORY PSYCHIATRIC INTERVENTIONS (1978) (9)
Three problems in contemporary psychoanalytic training. (1960) (9)
Justifying Coercion through Religion and Psychiatry (1987) (9)
The danger of coercive psychiatry. (1975) (8)
Illness and indignity. (1974) (8)
Psychiatric aspects of vagotomy; a preliminary report. (1948) (8)
"KNOWING WHAT AIN'T SO" (2004) (8)
Parity for mental illness, disparity for the mental patient (1998) (8)
Bootlegging Humanistic Values through Psychiatry (1962) (8)
MENTAL ILLNESS AS AN EXCUSE FOR CIVIL WRONGS (1968) (8)
The War against Drugs (1982) (8)
Human nature and psychotherapy (1962) (8)
The Case against Psychiatric Coercion (1997) (8)
Karl Kraus and the Soul-doctors: A Pioneer Critic and His Criticism of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (1977) (7)
The convenient myth of Thomas Szasz (2009) (7)
Psychoanalytic treatment as education. (1963) (7)
The Medicalization of Sex (1991) (7)
MEN AND MACHINES (1958) (7)
The Healing Word: Its Past, Present, and Future (1998) (7)
The origin of psychiatry (1995) (7)
Noncoercive Psychiatry: An Oxymoron (1991) (6)
Toward the Therapeutic State. (1963) (6)
Psychiatric Fraud and Force: A Critique of E. Fuller Torrey (2004) (6)
PSYCHIATRIC IMPERIALISM: THE MEDICALISATION OF MODERN LIVING (2010) (6)
Psychiatry and the Control of Dangerousness (2003) (6)
The classification of “Mental illness” (1959) (6)
A QUESTIONNAIRE STUDY OF PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICES AND OPINIONS (1962) (6)
The Negro in psychiatry. An historical note on psychiatric rhetoric. (1971) (6)
Suicide Prohibition: The Shame of Medicine (2011) (6)
1. Psychiatric Justice (1989) (6)
The cure of souls in the therapeutic state. (2003) (6)
On the legitimacy of psychiatric power (1982) (6)
Psychoanalysis and Medicine. (1959) (5)
Justice in the therapeutic state. (1970) (5)
Coercion as Cure (2007) (5)
THE MYT H OF MENTAL ILLNESS (1960) (5)
The lying truths of psychiatry. (1979) (5)
Civil Liberties and the Mentally Ill (1960) (5)
Faith in Freedom: Libertarian Principles and Psychiatric Practices (2004) (5)
Response to: comments on psychiatry and the control of dangerousness: on the apotropaic function of the term “mental illness” (2003) (5)
The moral physician. (1975) (5)
What counts as disease? (1986) (5)
Secular humanism and "scientific psychiatry" (2006) (5)
"Knowing What Ain't So": R. D. Laing and Thomas Szasz. (2004) (5)
The psychiatric protection order for the “battered mental patient” (2003) (5)
NORMALITY, NEUROSIS AND PSYCHOSIS: Some Observations on the Concepts of Mental Health and Mental Illness (1957) (4)
A bogus Benjamin Rush quote: contribution to the history of pharmacracy (2005) (4)
Pyschoanalysis as method and as theory. (1958) (4)
CIVIL LIBERTIES AND MENTAL ILLNESS Some Observations on the Case of Miss Edith L. Hough (1960) (4)
The pretense of psychology as science: The myth of mental illness in Statu Nascendi (2006) (4)
Psychoanalysis and the rule of law. (1968) (4)
Idleness and lawlessness in the therapeutic state (1995) (4)
Commentary on "Aristotle's Function Argument and the Concept of Mental Illness" (1998) (4)
Varieties of psychiatric criticism* (2012) (4)
The Tyranny of Pharmacracy (2001) (4)
Shakespeare’s Plays (2017) (4)
AN ATTEMPT AT THE SYSTEMATIC RESTATEMENT OF THE LIBIDO THEORY  I. A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF SOME ASPECTS OF THE LIBIDO THEORY: THE CONCEPTS OF LIBIDINAL ZONES, AIMS, AND MODES OF GRATIFICATION (1959) (4)
45 – Science and Public Policy: The Crime of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization* (1974) (4)
A Plea for the Cessation of the Longest War of the Twentieth Century— The War on Drugs (1988) (4)
Intentionality and Insanity: Some Lessons from Reflections on Art (1985) (3)
DISCRETION AS POWER: IN THE SITUATION CALLED ‘PSYCHOTHERAPY’ (1998) (3)
Comments on ‘The Definition of Psychosomatic Disorder’ (1956) (3)
PSYCHIATRIC ASPECTS OF VAGOTOMY III. The Problem of Diarrhea after Vagotomy* (1952) (3)
Psychiatric expert testimony; its covert meaning and social function. (1957) (3)
Entropy, organization and the problem of the economy of human relationships. (1955) (3)
THE ETHICS AND POLITICS OF COLLEGE PSYCHIATRY. (1967) (3)
Involuntary psychiatry. (1976) (3)
Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary (2004) (3)
The Person as Moral Agent (2001) (3)
Medical incapacity, legal incompetence and psychiatry (1999) (3)
Szasz on Schizophrenia (1977) (3)
Psychoanalysis and suggestion (1963) (3)
Psychotherapy: A sociocultural perspective* (1966) (2)
Hospital Refusal to Release Mental Patient (1960) (2)
Criminal Justice and Private Enterprise (1980) (2)
Psychoanalysis and the autonomic nervous system; a bioanalytic approach to the problem of the psychogenesis of somatic change. (1952) (2)
Psychiatry's sacred cow. (1979) (2)
A critical analysis of the fundamental concepts of psychical research (2005) (2)
Oral mechanisms in constipation and diarrhoea. (1951) (2)
The Right to Trial. (1963) (2)
“A Rose for Emily,” a rose for Terri: The lifeless body as love object and the case of Theresa Marie Schindler Schiavo (2006) (2)
A NOTE ON PSYCHIATRIC RHETORIC. (1965) (2)
Psychiatry in Public Schools (1964) (2)
Insanity and irresponsibility: psychiatric diversion in the criminal justice system. (1979) (2)
The psychiatric will: II. Whose will is it anyway? (1983) (2)
Grim Fairy Tales (1975) (2)
Reply to Brassington (2002) (2)
Behavior therapy: A critical review of the moral dimensions of behavior modification☆ (1978) (2)
Critical reflections on child psychiatry (1979) (2)
Psychosomatic aspects of salivary activity. I. Hypersalivation in patients with peptic ulcer. (1949) (2)
The Psychiatrist as Moral Agent (1982) (1)
The ethics of therapy. (1978) (1)
Comment: Scapegoating “Military addicts”: The helping hand strikes again (1972) (1)
College psychiatry: a critique. (1968) (1)
A Home for the Homeless (1986) (1)
Building the Therapeutic State. (1982) (1)
Karl Kraus and the Soul-Doctors: A Pioneer Critic and His Criticism of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis@@@No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus@@@Half-Truth & One-and-a-Half Truths: Karl Kraus, Selected Aphorisms@@@In These Great Times: A Karl Kraus Reader (1978) (1)
Psychosis, Psychiatry, And Homicide (1972) (1)
Hospital-patient relationships in medicine and psychiatry. (1961) (1)
An "unscrewtape" letter: a reply to Fred Sander. (1969) (1)
Psychiatry: a clear and present danger. (1974) (1)
Suicide and Psychiatric Coercioni (1989) (1)
A Clear and Present Danger. (1974) (1)
What Counts as Disease? · Rationales and Rationalizations for Treatment (1998) (1)
MACH AND PSYCHOANALYSIS (1960) (1)
Aborting unwanted behavior: the controversy on psychosurgery. (1977) (1)
Might makes the metaphor. (1974) (1)
Cleansing the modern heart (2003) (1)
You don't in psychiatry (2007) (1)
Protecting patients against psychiatric intervention (2004) (1)
Law, property, and psychiatry. (1972) (1)
Economics of Mental Illness. (1959) (1)
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SUGGESTION: AN HISTORICAL AND LOGICAL ANALYSIS. (1963) (1)
Feuchtersleben and Szasz: A Rejoinder. (1983) (1)
Scapegoating “Military Addicts”: The Helping Hand Strikes Again * (2017) (1)
Mind, brain, and the problem of responsibility (2000) (1)
Is the concept of entropy relevant to psychology and psychiatry? (1956) (1)
Crime and Mental Illness: A Critical Survey of the Literature. (1963) (0)
Should psychologists be coercive agents of the state? (2005) (0)
Ethics and Psychiatry: The Case of Mrs. Isola Ware Curry. (1963) (0)
Recollections of A Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: The Case of "Prisoner K" (2011) (0)
Jim Crow Psychiatry II: The Patient Self-Determination Act (2017) (0)
KORYAGIN AND PSYCHIATRIC COERCION (1988) (0)
Dying with their rights on. (1990) (0)
The Right to Refuse Treatment (1962) (0)
Treatment: Who For? What For? (1975) (0)
Introduction: Perilous Rescues (2017) (0)
REPLY TO THE FOREGOING (1958) (0)
The Perils of Prohibition* (2020) (0)
Concept of schizophrenia (1978) (0)
Response to Daily (1996) (0)
Karl Kraus and the soul-doctors (1976) (0)
Letters to the editor. (1971) (0)
Psychoanalysis--Modified, Purified, and Basic. (1961) (0)
Memory Management: A Gathering Ethical Storm (2006) (0)
Psychiatry: a clear and present danger. (1974) (0)
What Is Mental Illness (1963) (0)
The Abridgment of the Constitutional Rights of the Mentally Ill. (1963) (0)
AIDS AND DRUGS: BALANCING RISK AND BENEFITS (1987) (0)
What is psychoanalysis (2018) (0)
Politics and Psychiatry: The Case of Mr. Ezra Pound. (1963) (0)
Psychiatric Slavery: Legal Fiction and the Rhetoric of Therapeutic Oppression (2017) (0)
Conceptual and methodological problems in psychoanalysis (1960) (0)
The Psychology of Bodily Feelings in Schizophrenia (Special Article) (1957) (0)
Acquittal by Reason of Insanity. (1963) (0)
A Strategy of Freedom (1965) (0)
Studies on Hysteria (1958) (0)
Psychiatric Power and Social Action. (1963) (0)
Classification in Psychiatry. (1963) (0)
Justice and Injustice (1964) (0)
Feature Idleness and Lawlessness in the Therapeutic State (2005) (0)
Letters to the editor. (1969) (0)
Primum Non Coercere (2012) (0)
A Reply to Fred Sander (1969) (0)
Americcan Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization. (1971) (0)
Dying with their rights on (1990) (0)
The Endocrine Functions of the Brain. Edited by M. Motta. (Pp. 492; illustrated; $57.80.) Raven Press: New York. 1980 (1981) (0)
THE CONCEPT OF TESTAMENTARY CAPACITY: Further Observations on the Role of Psychiatric Concepts in Legal Situations (1957) (0)
The Illusion of Drug Abuse Treatment (2017) (0)
Mental Illness: Disease or Derogation? (1963) (0)
Drugs, doctors and deceit. (1972) (0)
About the Authors (1983) (0)
Feedback from our readers (1967) (0)
The Psychiatric Slave Status: From Dred Scott to Tarasoff (2017) (0)
Power and psychiatry (1981) (0)
The “medical ethics” of Peter Singer (2001) (0)
Merger of Psychiatry, Neurology (2009) (0)
Enigmas of Violence (1969) (0)
The Hospitalized Mental Patient's Fight for Freedom. (1963) (0)
J'Accuse: Psychiatry and the Diminished American Capacity for Justice (1980) (0)
The Illusion of Mental Patients’ Rights (2017) (0)
Letters to the editor (1952) (0)
Psychiatric aspects of vagotomy; preliminary report. (1948) (0)
Psychotherapy: a sociocltural perspective. (1966) (0)
Literature and Medicine (1989) (0)
The Schemm regime in the treatment of extreme congestive heart failure: a case report. (1947) (0)
Involuntary Mental Hospitalization (1976) (0)
NHS reorganisations: who's kicking whom, who's protesting?: Nothing surprising is happening (2006) (0)
The painful person. (1968) (0)
Ex Parte Psychiatry (2017) (0)
Dictionaries of Deviance (2017) (0)
Pain: Its Modes and Functions. (1962) (0)
Book Reviews MADNESS IN THE STREETS-HOW PSYCHIATRY AND THE LAW ABANDONED THE MENTALLY (2005) (0)
Secular humanism and "scientific psychiatry" / Thomas Szasz. (2007) (0)
FREEDOM AND THE PHYSICIAN'S ROLE (1960) (0)
Analysis of the Meaning of "Diagnosis" in the Light of Some Interrelations of Social Structure, Value Judgment, and the Physician's Role (2016) (0)
Dr. Szasz Replies (1972) (0)
Glorifying Psychiatric Slavery: Therapeutic Jurisprudence (2017) (0)
Commitment of the Mentally Ill. (1963) (0)
Crime and Punishment: A Game-Model Analysis of Forensic Psychiatry. (1963) (0)
THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP AND ITS HISTORICAL CONTEXT 1 (0)
Psychiatry and dissent. (1978) (0)
Proposals for Reform in the Mental Health Field. (1963) (0)
Commento a The Myth of Mental Illness di Thomas S . Szasz (2014) (0)
Parity of mental illness, disparity for the mental patient (1999) (0)
Pull down Thy Vanity: Psychiatry and Its Discontents@@@The Therapeutic State: Psychiatry in the Mirror of Current Events@@@The Reign of Error: Psychiatry, Authority, and Law@@@The Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeths (1985) (0)
The Religion Called “Psychiatry” (2017) (0)
Pharmacracy in America (2004) (0)
Brain, Behavior and Bodily Disease. Edited by H. Weiner, M. A. Hofer and A. J. Stunkard. (Pp 376; illustrated; $50.32.) Raven Press: New York. 1980 (1981) (0)
Mental Illness and Mental Incompetence (2017) (0)
25. The Ethics of Suicide (1977) (0)
The Contemporary Scene (2017) (0)
A dialogue on education for autonomy — An interview (1989) (0)
The Mental Patient's Position in Society: From Contract to Status. (1963) (0)
Justifying Psychiatric Slavery: “Dangerousness” as Disease (2017) (0)
Letters to the editor (1969) (0)
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND TAXATION; A CONTRIBUTION TO THE RHETORIC OF THE DISEASE CONCEPT IN PSYCHIATRY. (1964) (0)
Freud as a Leader (1963) (0)
Dr. Szasz' Reply (1967) (0)
Dictionaries of Drunkenness (2017) (0)

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