• Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.

  Thomas Szasz
  American psychiatrist 1920-2012
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1. psychiatric
2. environment
3. political
4. condenses
5. expresses
6. contest

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Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body. by : Thomas Szasz

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