I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to the category of pseudo-science.
Thomas Szasz quote Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adult
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Thomas Szasz quoteMen often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.
Thomas Szasz quote Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
Thomas Szasz quote People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates
Thomas Szasz quote The proverb warns; 'Don't bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
Thomas Szasz quote The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz quote The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
Thomas Szasz quote Biography
Hungarian-born psychiatrist