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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. His books The Myth of Mental Illness and The Manufacture of Madness set out some of the arguments most associated with him.

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The Myth of Mental Illness (1961) (1656)
A contribution to the philosophy of medicine; the basic models of the doctor-patient relationship. (1956) (898)
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct (1965) (750)
The ethics of psychoanalysis (1965) (353)
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) (203)
Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man (1970) (178)
The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1971) (169)
Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry (1976) (135)
Law, Liberty, And Psychiatry: An Inquiry Into The Social Uses Of Mental Health Practices (1989) (131)
Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences (1988) (109)
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) (84)
The myth of psychotherapy. (1974) (78)
The uses of naming and the origin of the myth of mental illness. (1961) (77)
The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 1: conceptual and definitional issues in psychiatric diagnosis (2012) (76)
Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America (2001) (69)
Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide (1998) (62)
Coercion as cure : a critical history of psychiatry (2009) (57)
The Ethics of Suicide (1971) (55)
Sex by prescription (1980) (48)
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)
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)
Psychiatry and the control of dangerousness: on the apotropaic function of the term “mental illness” (2003) (38)
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 theology of medicine (1977) (35)
The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 3: issues of utility and alternative approaches in psychiatric diagnosis (2012) (34)
The myth of mental illness: 50 years later (2011) (34)
The theology of medicine : the political-philosophical foundations of medical ethics (1977) (32)
Mental illness is still a myth (1994) (31)
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) (27)
The Ethics of Addiction (1972) (27)
Schizophrenia: the sacred symbol of psychiatry. (1976) (26)
The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing as Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression (2015) (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 Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary (1990) (26)
Some observations on the use of tranquilizing drugs. (1957) (25)
Second Commentary on "Aristotle's Function Argument" (2000) (25)
On the theory of psychoanalytic treatment. (1957) (25)
The Medicalization of Everyday Life (2007) (25)
Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted (1994) (24)
The Age Of Madness - The History Of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization Presented In Selected Texts (1975) (24)
The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality, and Neuroscience (2002) (23)
Some observations on the relationship between psychiatry and the law. (1956) (23)
Mental Illness as a Metaphor (1973) (22)
Psychiatric aspects of vagotomy; phantom ulcer pain. (1949) (22)
The psychiatrist as double agent (1967) (21)
A Lexicon of Lunacy: Metaphoric Malady, Moral Responsibility, and Psychiatry (1993) (21)
The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue. Part 4: general conclusion (2012) (20)
Voluntary mental hospitalization. An unacknowledged practice of medical fraud. (1972) (20)
Psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatric power and psychiatric abuse. (1994) (19)
Antipsychiatry: Quackery Squared (2009) (19)
Medicine and madness (1975) (19)
Psychiatric Aspects of Vagotomy: II. A Psychiatric Study of Vagotomized Ulcer Patients with Comments on Prognosis (1949) (19)
The Psychiatric Will (2017) (19)
Thomas Szasz: Primary Values and Major Contentions (1982) (19)
The Role of the Counterphobic Mechanism in Addiction (1958) (19)
A contribution to the psychology of schizophrenia. (1957) (19)
Diagnoses are not diseases (1991) (19)
The communication of distress between child and parent. (1959) (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) (17)
The Age of Madness (1973) (17)
Psychiatry, Anti-Psychiatry, Critical Psychiatry: What Do These Terms Mean? (2010) (16)
Bad Habits are not Diseases (1972) (16)
From Contract to Status via Psychiatry (1973) (16)
A theory of the pathogenesis of ordinary human baldness. (1950) (15)
Sex: Facts, Frauds and Follies (1981) (15)
From the slaughterhouse to the madhouse. (1971) (14)
Psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychology. (1959) (14)
Physiologic and Psychodynamic Mechanisms in Constipation and Diarrhea (1951) (14)
The psychology of bodily feelings in schizophrenia. (1957) (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)
Anti-Freud : Karl Kraus's criticism of psychoanalysis and psychiatry (1990) (12)
Scientific method and social role in medicine and psychiatry. (1958) (12)
Schizophrenia — a category error (1978) (12)
PSYCHIATRY: RHETORIC AND REALITY (1985) (12)
The nature of pain. (1955) (12)
Psychosomatic Aspects of Salivary Activity: II. Psychoanalytic Observations Concerning Hypersalivation (1950) (12)
On the psychoanalytic theory of instincts. (1952) (12)
The Concept of Mental Illness: Explanation or Justification? (1977) (12)
Debunking Antipsychiatry: Laing, Law, and Largactil (2008) (12)
THE MORAL DILEMMA OF PSYCHIATRY: AUTONOMY OR HETERONOMY? (1964) (11)
COMMITMENT OF THE MENTALLY ILL: “TREATMENT” OR SOCIAL RESTRAINT? (1957) (11)
The therapeutic state (1984) (11)
The myth of psychotherapy. (1974) (11)
MIND TAPPING: PSYCHIATRIC SUBVERSION OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS (1962) (10)
My Madness Saved Me: The Madness and Marriage of Virginia Woolf (1987) (10)
A QUESTIONNAIRE STUDY OF PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICES AND OPINIONS. (1963) (10)
Law and psychiatry: The problems that will not go away. (1990) (10)
The Criminal, the Judge, and the Public: A Psychological Analysis. (1957) (10)
Justifying Coercion through Religion and Psychiatry (1987) (9)
Factors in the Pathogenesis of Peptic Ulcer: Some Critical Comments on a Recent Article by George F. Mahl (1949) (9)
The Myth of Mental Illness: 50 years after publication: What does it mean today? (2010) (9)
THE CASE AGAINST COMPULSORY PSYCHIATRIC INTERVENTIONS (1978) (9)
Three problems in contemporary psychoanalytic training. (1960) (9)
A contribution to the psychology of bodily feelings. (1957) (9)
MENTAL ILLNESS AS AN EXCUSE FOR CIVIL WRONGS (1968) (8)
Psychiatric aspects of vagotomy; a preliminary report. (1948) (8)
The danger of coercive psychiatry. (1975) (8)
Illness and indignity. (1974) (8)
The Case against Psychiatric Coercion (1997) (8)
Parity for mental illness, disparity for the mental patient (1998) (8)
Human nature and psychotherapy (1962) (8)
Bootlegging Humanistic Values through Psychiatry (1962) (8)
The Healing Word: Its Past, Present, and Future (1998) (7)
Psychoanalytic treatment as education. (1963) (7)
The War against Drugs (1982) (7)
"KNOWING WHAT AIN'T SO" (2004) (7)
Karl Kraus and the Soul-doctors: A Pioneer Critic and His Criticism of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (1977) (7)
The origin of psychiatry (1995) (7)
The Medicalization of Sex (1991) (7)
The convenient myth of Thomas Szasz (2009) (7)
MEN AND MACHINES (1958) (7)
PSYCHIATRIC IMPERIALISM: THE MEDICALISATION OF MODERN LIVING (2010) (6)
1. Psychiatric Justice (1989) (6)
The Negro in psychiatry. An historical note on psychiatric rhetoric. (1971) (6)
Toward the Therapeutic State. (1963) (6)
Noncoercive Psychiatry: An Oxymoron (1991) (6)
Suicide Prohibition: The Shame of Medicine (2011) (6)
Psychiatric Fraud and Force: A Critique of E. Fuller Torrey (2004) (6)
Psychiatry and the Control of Dangerousness (2003) (6)
The classification of “Mental illness” (1959) (6)
The cure of souls in the therapeutic state. (2003) (6)
On the legitimacy of psychiatric power (1982) (6)
A QUESTIONNAIRE STUDY OF PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICES AND OPINIONS (1962) (6)
The lying truths of psychiatry. (1979) (5)
Psychoanalysis and Medicine. (1959) (5)
Justice in the therapeutic state. (1970) (5)
Coercion as Cure (2007) (5)
The psychiatric protection order for the “battered mental patient” (2003) (5)
THE MYT H OF MENTAL ILLNESS (1960) (5)
"Knowing What Ain't So": R. D. Laing and Thomas Szasz. (2004) (5)
Faith in Freedom: Libertarian Principles and Psychiatric Practices (2004) (5)
What counts as disease? (1986) (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)
Secular humanism and "scientific psychiatry" (2006) (5)
Civil Liberties and the Mentally Ill (1960) (5)
45 – Science and Public Policy: The Crime of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization* (1974) (4)
Shakespeare’s Plays (2017) (4)
Varieties of psychiatric criticism* (2012) (4)
Psychoanalysis and the rule of law. (1968) (4)
The Tyranny of Pharmacracy (2001) (4)
The pretense of psychology as science: The myth of mental illness in Statu Nascendi (2006) (4)
A Plea for the Cessation of the Longest War of the Twentieth Century— The War on Drugs (1988) (4)
Commentary on "Aristotle's Function Argument and the Concept of Mental Illness" (1998) (4)
NORMALITY, NEUROSIS AND PSYCHOSIS: Some Observations on the Concepts of Mental Health and Mental Illness (1957) (4)
Idleness and lawlessness in the therapeutic state (1995) (4)
Pyschoanalysis as method and as theory. (1958) (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)
A bogus Benjamin Rush quote: contribution to the history of pharmacracy (2005) (4)
CIVIL LIBERTIES AND MENTAL ILLNESS Some Observations on the Case of Miss Edith L. Hough (1960) (4)
PSYCHIATRIC ASPECTS OF VAGOTOMY III. The Problem of Diarrhea after Vagotomy* (1952) (3)
Psychoanalysis and suggestion (1963) (3)
Intentionality and Insanity: Some Lessons from Reflections on Art (1985) (3)
THE ETHICS AND POLITICS OF COLLEGE PSYCHIATRY. (1967) (3)
Involuntary psychiatry. (1976) (3)
Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary (2004) (3)
Psychiatric expert testimony; its covert meaning and social function. (1957) (3)
Comments on ‘The Definition of Psychosomatic Disorder’ (1956) (3)
DISCRETION AS POWER: IN THE SITUATION CALLED ‘PSYCHOTHERAPY’ (1998) (3)
Entropy, organization and the problem of the economy of human relationships. (1955) (3)
Szasz on Schizophrenia (1977) (3)
The Person as Moral Agent (2001) (3)
Medical incapacity, legal incompetence and psychiatry (1999) (3)
Grim Fairy Tales (1975) (2)
Insanity and irresponsibility: psychiatric diversion in the criminal justice system. (1979) (2)
Oral mechanisms in constipation and diarrhoea. (1951) (2)
The psychiatric will: II. Whose will is it anyway? (1983) (2)
A NOTE ON PSYCHIATRIC RHETORIC. (1965) (2)
Psychosomatic aspects of salivary activity. I. Hypersalivation in patients with peptic ulcer. (1949) (2)
Psychiatry in Public Schools (1964) (2)
Reply to Brassington (2002) (2)
Psychiatry's sacred cow. (1979) (2)
A critical analysis of the fundamental concepts of psychical research (2005) (2)
Behavior therapy: A critical review of the moral dimensions of behavior modification☆ (1978) (2)
Criminal Justice and Private Enterprise (1980) (2)
Psychotherapy: A sociocultural perspective* (1966) (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)
Psychoanalysis and the autonomic nervous system; a bioanalytic approach to the problem of the psychogenesis of somatic change. (1952) (2)
The Right to Trial. (1963) (2)
Critical reflections on child psychiatry (1979) (2)
Hospital Refusal to Release Mental Patient (1960) (2)
The Psychiatrist as Moral Agent (1982) (1)
Cleansing the modern heart (2003) (1)
What Counts as Disease? · Rationales and Rationalizations for Treatment (1998) (1)
Might makes the metaphor. (1974) (1)
Psychiatry: a clear and present danger. (1974) (1)
The ethics of therapy. (1978) (1)
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SUGGESTION: AN HISTORICAL AND LOGICAL ANALYSIS. (1963) (1)
An "unscrewtape" letter: a reply to Fred Sander. (1969) (1)
Suicide and Psychiatric Coercioni (1989) (1)
Comment: Scapegoating “Military addicts”: The helping hand strikes again (1972) (1)
Mind, brain, and the problem of responsibility (2000) (1)
MACH AND PSYCHOANALYSIS (1960) (1)
College psychiatry: a critique. (1968) (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)
A Clear and Present Danger. (1974) (1)
Aborting unwanted behavior: the controversy on psychosurgery. (1977) (1)
Law, property, and psychiatry. (1972) (1)
You don't in psychiatry (2007) (1)
Scapegoating “Military Addicts”: The Helping Hand Strikes Again * (2017) (1)
Protecting patients against psychiatric intervention (2004) (1)
Economics of Mental Illness. (1959) (1)
Hospital-patient relationships in medicine and psychiatry. (1961) (1)
Feuchtersleben and Szasz: A Rejoinder. (1983) (1)
A Home for the Homeless (1986) (1)
Is the concept of entropy relevant to psychology and psychiatry? (1956) (1)
Building the Therapeutic State. (1982) (1)
Psychosis, Psychiatry, And Homicide (1972) (1)
Analysis of the Meaning of "Diagnosis" in the Light of Some Interrelations of Social Structure, Value Judgment, and the Physician's Role (2016) (0)
FREEDOM AND THE PHYSICIAN'S ROLE (1960) (0)
Psychiatry and dissent. (1978) (0)
The Schemm regime in the treatment of extreme congestive heart failure: a case report. (1947) (0)
Commento a The Myth of Mental Illness di Thomas S . Szasz (2014) (0)
Psychiatry: a clear and present danger. (1974) (0)
The Hospitalized Mental Patient's Fight for Freedom. (1963) (0)
The “medical ethics” of Peter Singer (2001) (0)
Primum Non Coercere (2012) (0)
Conceptual and methodological problems in psychoanalysis (1960) (0)
Dr. Szasz' Reply (1967) (0)
A Reply to Fred Sander (1969) (0)
Americcan Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization. (1971) (0)
Treatment: Who For? What For? (1975) (0)
Pharmacracy in America (2004) (0)
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND TAXATION; A CONTRIBUTION TO THE RHETORIC OF THE DISEASE CONCEPT IN PSYCHIATRY. (1964) (0)
Letters to the editor. (1969) (0)
Commitment of the Mentally Ill. (1963) (0)
Dictionaries of Deviance (2017) (0)
Involuntary Mental Hospitalization (1976) (0)
Recollections of A Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: The Case of "Prisoner K" (2011) (0)
Psychiatric aspects of vagotomy; preliminary report. (1948) (0)
A Strategy of Freedom (1965) (0)
Should psychologists be coercive agents of the state? (2005) (0)
Dying with their rights on (1990) (0)
The Abridgment of the Constitutional Rights of the Mentally Ill. (1963) (0)
Letters to the editor. (1971) (0)
Feature Idleness and Lawlessness in the Therapeutic State (2005) (0)
Ethics and Psychiatry: The Case of Mrs. Isola Ware Curry. (1963) (0)
The Contemporary Scene (2017) (0)
The Psychiatric Slave Status: From Dred Scott to Tarasoff (2017) (0)
Justice and Injustice (1964) (0)
REPLY TO THE FOREGOING (1958) (0)
A dialogue on education for autonomy — An interview (1989) (0)
AIDS AND DRUGS: BALANCING RISK AND BENEFITS (1987) (0)
The Psychology of Bodily Feelings in Schizophrenia (Special Article) (1957) (0)
Jim Crow Psychiatry II: The Patient Self-Determination Act (2017) (0)
The Right to Refuse Treatment (1962) (0)
What Is Mental Illness (1963) (0)
Psychoanalysis--Modified, Purified, and Basic. (1961) (0)
Enigmas of Violence (1969) (0)
Ex Parte Psychiatry (2017) (0)
Psychiatric Slavery: Legal Fiction and the Rhetoric of Therapeutic Oppression (2017) (0)
Secular humanism and "scientific psychiatry" / Thomas Szasz. (2007) (0)
J'Accuse: Psychiatry and the Diminished American Capacity for Justice (1980) (0)
Mental Illness: Disease or Derogation? (1963) (0)
Dr. Szasz Replies (1972) (0)
NHS reorganisations: who's kicking whom, who's protesting?: Nothing surprising is happening (2006) (0)
Crime and Mental Illness: A Critical Survey of the Literature. (1963) (0)
What is psychoanalysis (2018) (0)
Proposals for Reform in the Mental Health Field. (1963) (0)
25. The Ethics of Suicide (1977) (0)
Acquittal by Reason of Insanity. (1963) (0)
Psychotherapy: a sociocltural perspective. (1966) (0)
Freud as a Leader (1963) (0)
Karl Kraus and the soul-doctors (1976) (0)
Parity of mental illness, disparity for the mental patient (1999) (0)
Letters to the editor (1952) (0)
KORYAGIN AND PSYCHIATRIC COERCION (1988) (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)
Psychiatric Power and Social Action. (1963) (0)
The Illusion of Mental Patients’ Rights (2017) (0)
Glorifying Psychiatric Slavery: Therapeutic Jurisprudence (2017) (0)
The Religion Called “Psychiatry” (2017) (0)
The painful person. (1968) (0)
Introduction: Perilous Rescues (2017) (0)
THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP AND ITS HISTORICAL CONTEXT 1 (0)
The Perils of Prohibition* (2020) (0)
Concept of schizophrenia (1978) (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)
Justifying Psychiatric Slavery: “Dangerousness” as Disease (2017) (0)
Literature and Medicine (1989) (0)
Dictionaries of Drunkenness (2017) (0)
Mental Illness and Mental Incompetence (2017) (0)
Memory Management: A Gathering Ethical Storm (2006) (0)
The Endocrine Functions of the Brain. Edited by M. Motta. (Pp. 492; illustrated; $57.80.) Raven Press: New York. 1980 (1981) (0)
Power and psychiatry (1981) (0)
Feedback from our readers (1967) (0)
Response to Daily (1996) (0)
Drugs, doctors and deceit. (1972) (0)
Classification in Psychiatry. (1963) (0)
Pain: Its Modes and Functions. (1962) (0)
Crime and Punishment: A Game-Model Analysis of Forensic Psychiatry. (1963) (0)
Book Reviews MADNESS IN THE STREETS-HOW PSYCHIATRY AND THE LAW ABANDONED THE MENTALLY (2005) (0)
Merger of Psychiatry, Neurology (2009) (0)
Studies on Hysteria (1958) (0)
Dying with their rights on. (1990) (0)
The Mental Patient's Position in Society: From Contract to Status. (1963) (0)
Politics and Psychiatry: The Case of Mr. Ezra Pound. (1963) (0)
Letters to the editor (1969) (0)
The Illusion of Drug Abuse Treatment (2017) (0)
THE CONCEPT OF TESTAMENTARY CAPACITY: Further Observations on the Role of Psychiatric Concepts in Legal Situations (1957) (0)

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