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Thomas Szasz Materials

  • Thomas Szasz, M.D. Publications list

  • Curriculum Vitae of Thomas S. Szasz

  • Portrait of Thomas Szasz by Jerome P. Witkin

  • "Liberty and/or Psychiatry 40 Years After The Myth of Mental Illness:
    A special symposium in honor of Thomas Szasz's 80th Birthday, April 15, 2000

  • Senseless

  • The Illegitimacy of the "Psychiatric Bible"

  • The Medicalization of Suicide

  • Primum Nocere

  • The Art and Science of Pseudology

  • The Shame of Medicine: Acquittal by Psychiatry

  • The Shame of Medicine: Alan Turing Redux

  • The shame of medicine: Conviction by psychiatry

  • The shame of medicine: The depravity of psychiatry

  • The shame of medicine: The case of Alan Turing

  • The therapeutic state - The burden of responsibility

  • The therapeutic state - Mendacity by metaphor

  • The therapeutic state -- Psychiatry versus liberty

  • Anti-coercion is not anti-psychiatry

  • Treatments without diseases

  • The medicalization of everyday life

  • Medicalizing quackery

  • Defining psychiatry

  • Therapeutic censorship

  • On not admitting error

  • Final analysis

  • Psychiatry: A branch of the law

  • The therapeutic temptation

  • Mental illness: Sickness or status?

  • "Fear and folly: Bertrand Russell, C.S. Lewis, and the existential identity thief"

  • "Mental illness as brain disease: A brief history lesson"

  • "Taking drug laws seriously, II"

  • "Psychiatry: Disease Inflation"

  • "The Mad-Genius Controversy"

  • Liberty, not secularism, is the issue. In "Will secularism survive?" (Symposium). Free Inquiry, 25, 43-44 (October/November).

  • "'Idiots, infants, and the insane': Mental illness and legal incompetence."

  • e-interview by Dominic Fannon, Psychiatric Bulletin, Royal College of Psychiatrists, March, 2005, p. 120, London, England

  • "A jó pszichiáter olyan, mint a pincér." Népszabadság, 2004. június 12., Szerzo: Féderer Ágnes

  • Remarks at the 35th Anniversary and Human Rights Award Dinner, Citizens Commission on Human Rights International, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, California, February 28, 2004

  • "College Suicide: Caveat Vendor"

  • "Benjamin Rush and 'Medical Marijuana'"

  • "Primum Nocere"

  • "Psychiatric 'Services'"

  • "Drugs and Freedom" (1973) PBS film with William Buckley

  • "A House of Aces"

  • Taking Dialogue as Therapy Seriously: "Words Are the Essential Tool of Treatment"

  • Court decisions regarding mental health law citing the views of Thomas Szasz

  • Obesity in the Young

  • Psychiatric Slavery?

  • On Autogenic Diseases

  • Self-Ownership or Suicide Prevention?

  • Civil Liberties and Civil Commitment

  • Limbaugh's Disease

  • Taking Drug Laws Seriously, II

  • Marijuana Medicalization: Bad Cause, Bad Faith

  • Psychiatry and the Control of Dangerousness: On the Apotropaic Function of the Term "Mental Illness"

  • The Psychiatric Protection Order for the "Battered Mental Patient"

  • Unequal Justice for All

  • The Secular Cure of Souls: "Analysis" or Dialogue?

  • The Cure of Souls in the Therapeutic State

  • The Myth of Health Insurance

  • Remembering Psychiatric Patient's Civil Rights

  • Parity or Prevarication?

  • Thomas Szasz: In Conversation with Alan Kerr

  • Opiate of the Masses

  • Taking Drug Laws Seriously

  • Mental Illness: From Shame to Pride

  • Straight Talk About Suicide

  • Hayek and Psychiatry

  • The Maternity Hospital and the Mental Hospital

  • The Psychiatrist as Accomplice

  • 'Suicide Bomber,' to Be Precise

  • Otto Szász, Thomas Szasz's Uncle

  • Parity for Mental Illness, Disparity for Mental Patients

  • Rothbard on Szasz

  • Patient or Prisoner?

  • Kevorkian warps the value he touts

  • Mises on Psychiatry

  • "Thumbs on the Parity Scale for Psychiatrists" by Thomas Szasz

  • "Assisted Suicide is Bootleg Suicide"

  • "Thomas Szasz, MD: Philosopher, Psychiatrist, Libertarian" by Eric V.D. Luft, Ph.D., M.L.S.

  • Mental Illness: Psychiatry's Phlogiston

  • The Lying Truths of Psychiatry

  • Beware of Pharmacracy

  • The Psychiatric Collaborator as 'Critic'

  • The Bought Mind

  • A photograph of Thomas Szasz autographing the new Hungarian translation of Ceremonial Chemistry in Budapest, Hungary, June 2001

  • Against Behaviorism: A Review of B. F. Skinner's book About Behaviorism

  • The Myth of Mental Illness. American Psychologist, 15, 113-118

  • "Placebos, Healing and a Mother's Kiss"

  • State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, Honorary Degree Recipient's Remarks, May 21, 2001

  • SUNY Doctor of Science Diploma, May 20, 2001

  • SUNY Citation, May 20, 2001

  • SUNY Graduation Program Bios, May 20, 2001

  • Commencement Address by Thomas S. Szasz at Towson University on May 23, 1999

  • Conferring of the Honorary Degree at Towson University on May 23, 1999

  • Kevorkian, Lies, and Suicide

  • The Therapeutic State: The Tyranny of Pharmacracy

  • With Friends Like These, Pity America's Kids

  • Anatomy of a Teenage Shooting

  • Affirmative Chemical Action

  • Public Schools as Drug Delivery Systems

  • Creativity and Criminality: The Two Faces of Responsibility

  • Progress in Pain Relief

  • Chemical Straitjackets for Children

  • Remembering Masturbatory Insanity

  • Does Insanity "Cause" Crime?

  • Remembering Krafft-Ebing

  • Is Mental Illness a Disease?

  • The Hazards of Truth-Telling

  • Suicide as a Moral Issue

  • Gullible Skeptics

  • Mental Disorders are Not Diseases

  • Szasz's "Ceremonial Chemistry" published in Hungarian

  • Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide

  • The Moral Physician

  • The Political Legitimation of Quackery

  • The Marijuana Referendums: Bolstering the Therapeutic State

  • The Foucault Tribunal on the State of Psychiatry

  • The Case Against Psychiatric Coercion

  • The Healing Word: Its Past, Present, And Future

  • The Control of Conduct: Authority versus Autonomy

  • The Myth of Psychotherapy (on audiotape)

  • Audiotapes from the lectures at The Los Angeles Center for Traumatic Stress and Sudden Bereavement, September 25, 1999

  • The War on Drugs is Lost (from National Review)
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