Thomas Szasz
American psychiatrist
Lived from: 1920 - 2012
Category: Psychologists Country: 
United States
Born: 15 april 1920 Died: 8 september 2012
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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
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Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
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Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.
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Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.
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Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.
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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic -in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea -known to medical science is work.
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The proverb warns; ''Don't bite the hand that feeds you.'' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
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The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
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There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
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Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.
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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
― Thomas Szasz
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