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Thomas Stephen Szasz – amerykański psychiatra i psychoanalityk węgierskiego pochodzenia, wykładowca akademicki, autor, działacz społeczny.

Od 1990 profesor emeritus psychiatrii w State University of New York Health Science Center w Syracuse w stanie Nowy Jork. Czołowy działacz ruchu antypsychiatrii, autor książek The Myth of Mental Illness , Law, liberty, and psychiatry: an inquiry into the social uses of mental health practice , The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement . Jego podstawowe założenie było, iż szaleństwo, jako objaw chorób typu schizofrenii, jest po prostu metaforą.

W 1973 American Humanist Association przyznało mu tytuł „Humanist of the Year”. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. Kwiecień 1920 – 8. Wrzesień 2012   •   Natępne imiona Thomas Stephen Szasz
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“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”

"Personal Conduct" http://books.google.com/books?id=IYOcAQAAQBAJ&q=%22The+stupid+neither+forgive+nor+forget+the+na%C3%AFve+forgive+and+forget+the+wise+forgive+but+do+not+forget%22&pg=PA177#v=onepage, p. 51. http://openlibrary.org/works/OL15151528W/The_Second_Sin
The Second Sin (1973)

“The crime [homosexuality] was subject to punishment by both secular and ecclesiastical courts—just as now it is subject to punishment by both penal and psychiatric sanctions.”

Źródło: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1997), p. 164.

“We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental illness, prevalent today.”

Źródło: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1997), p. 161.

“In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.”

The Manufacture of Madness (1970) http://books.google.com/books?id=hpOcRRum3XEC&pg=PR24&q="In+the+past+men+created+witches+now+they+create+mental+patients".

“What had been drapetomania became depression. … Modern man runs away from a life that seems to him a kind of slavery.”

"The Sane Slave: Social Control and Legal Psychiatry," American Criminal Law Review, vol. 10 (1971), p. 346.