“If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; If you talk to the dead, you are a schizophrenic.”

—  Thomas Szasz

"Schizophrenia", p. 101.
The Second Sin (1973)

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Hungarian psychiatrist 1920–2012

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