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Haldipur, C. V. "Thomas Szasz." Psychiatrist 37, no. 2 (2013): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.112.042358.

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Stafford, N. "Thomas Szasz." BMJ 345, oct17 1 (2012): e7011-e7011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e7011.

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Dodwell, David. "Thomas Szasz." International Psychiatry 11, no. 3 (2014): 75–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/s1749367600004574.

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Kerr, Alan. "Thomas Szasz." Psychiatric Bulletin 21, no. 1 (1997): 39–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.21.1.39.

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Fannon, Dominic. "Thomas Szasz." Psychiatric Bulletin 29, no. 3 (2005): 120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.29.3.120.

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Watts, Geoff. "Thomas Stephen Szasz." Lancet 380, no. 9851 (2012): 1380. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(12)61790-5.

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Slovenko, Ralph. "On Thomas Szasz." Journal of Psychiatry & Law 30, no. 1 (2002): 119–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009318530203000112.

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Domaradzki, Jan. "Thomas Szasz: The Uncompromising Rebel and Critic of Psychiatry." Psychiatria Polska 55, no. 4 (2021): 851–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.12740/pp/125902.

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Breeding, John. "Thomas Szasz: Philosopher of Liberty." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 51, no. 1 (2010): 112–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022167810373395.

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Pies, Ronald W. "The writings of Thomas Szasz." BJPsych Bulletin 41, no. 2 (2017): 120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.41.2.120.

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O'Shea, Brian. "Thomas Stephen Szasz (1920-2012)." Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine 29, no. 3 (2012): 201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0790966700017304.

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Monini, Antonella. "Thomas S. Szasz, M.D. (1920-2012)." IPNOSI, no. 2 (January 2013): 95–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/ipn2012-002009.

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Brown, Robin Gordon. "Thomas Szasz, Mental Illness and Psychotherapy." British Journal of Psychotherapy 7, no. 3 (1991): 283–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-0118.1991.tb01131.x.

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Barker, Phil, and Poppy Buchanan-Barker. "The debt we owe Thomas Szasz." British Journal of Wellbeing 1, no. 1 (2010): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjow.2010.1.1.47708.

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BUCHANAN-BARKER, P., and P. BARKER. "The convenient myth of Thomas Szasz." Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 16, no. 1 (2009): 87–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2850.2008.01310.x.

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Moncrieff, Joanna. "‘Freedom is more important than health’: Thomas Szasz and the problem of paternalism." International Psychiatry 11, no. 2 (2014): 46–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/s1749367600004392.

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When Thomas Szasz summed up his philosophical principles at the Royal College of Psychiatrists' annual meeting in Edinburgh in 2010, he declared that ‘freedom is more important than health’. Psychiatry is the arena in which the conflict between freedom and health comes most sharply into focus, according to Szasz. This paper proposes some parallels with medicine in low-income countries for pointers towards a resolution of this conflict.

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López-Silva, Pablo. "Consideraciones críticas sobre la propuesta de Thomas Szasz. Entre filosofía de la mente, fenomenología y psiquiatría." Revista Latinoamericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental 17, no. 2 (2014): 234–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1984-0381v17n2a07.

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El siguiente artículo discute algunos aspectos básicos de la crítica al concepto de 'enfermedad mental' elaborada por Thomas Szasz. El análisis incluye elementos provenientes desde la psiquiatría, fenomenología y filosofía de la mente. Junto con ofrecer conclusiones respecto del aporte de la propuesta de Szasz para los actuales desarrollos críticos de las comprensiones de la psicopatología, también concluimos con algunas notas clasificatorias respecto de la naturaleza interdisciplinaria de la relación entre psiquiatría, fenomenología y filosofía de la mente.

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Turner, Trevor. "The legacy – or not – of Dr Thomas Szasz (1920–2012)." International Psychiatry 11, no. 2 (2014): 48–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/s1749367600004409.

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Kilwein, M. L. "THOMAS SZASZ—A SAMPLING OF HIS THOUGHTS." Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics 14, no. 5 (1989): 323–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2710.1989.tb00255.x.

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Williams, Arthur R., and Arthur L. Caplan. "Thomas Szasz: rebel with a questionable cause." Lancet 380, no. 9851 (2012): 1378–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(12)61789-9.

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Capron, Alexander M. "Thomas Szasz: rebel with a questionable cause." Lancet 381, no. 9862 (2013): 203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(13)60088-4.

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Carey, Timothy A. "Thomas Szasz: rebel with a questionable cause." Lancet 381, no. 9862 (2013): 203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(13)60089-6.

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Wyatt, Randall C. "Thomas Szasz: Liberty and the Practice of Psychotherapy." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 44, no. 1 (2004): 71–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022167803261611.

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Birtchnell, John. "The Myth of Mental Illness: Thomas S. Szasz." British Journal of Psychiatry 155, no. 3 (1989): 425–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/s0007125000178481.

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Thomas Szasz is one of the most disliked names in contemporary psychiatry, and The Myth of Mental Illness is one of the most disapproved of books. It was Szasz's contention that illness can affect only the body and that there can be no such thing as an illness of the mind. He described mental illness as a metaphorical illness, maintaining that one can speak of a 'sick’ mind only in the same way as one can speak of a 'sick’ joke or a 'sick’ economy. He went on to argue that, if there is no mental illness, there can be no treatment for it, and no cure of it. There was, for him therefore, no medi

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Szmukler, George, and Frank Holloway. "Response to Szasz." Psychiatric Bulletin 23, no. 9 (1999): 520–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.23.9.520.

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Thomas Szasz is justifiably famous for his critique of psychiatry. He was instrumental in focusing an important debate on the status of ‘mental illness' and its social implications for which we are all deeply indebted. However times have moved on. Holloway and I seek to cast different “skeletons from the closet” to those of Szasz. We seek to destigmatise mental illness, so it no longer constitutes a secret source of shame or pain to a family or person. We ask that mental illness be treated neither better nor worse than physical illness. Only if a person suffers from mental incapacity, whatever

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French, Craig. "On the Myth of Psychotherapy." Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 32, no. 1 (2025): 67–80. https://doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2025.a954585.

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Abstract: Thomas Szasz famously argued that mental illness is a myth. Less famously, Szasz argued that since mental illness is a myth, so too is psychotherapy. Szasz's claim that mental illness is a myth has been much discussed, but much less attention has been paid to his claim that psychotherapy is a myth. In the first part of this essay, I critically examine Szasz's discussion of psychotherapy to uncover the strongest version of his case for thinking that it is a myth. As we'll see, this involves an understanding of psychotherapeutic interventions as treatments of psychopathological problem

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Rubin, Jeffrey. "Thomas Szasz, William James, and the Psychiatric Drugs Controversy." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 35, no. 1 (1995): 8–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00221678950351003.

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Counter, Paul, and Robert Spillane. "On the Legacy of Thomas Szasz: A Reiteration of The Myth of Mental Illness and Response to Recent Criticism." Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry 19, no. 3 (2018): 150–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1559-4343.19.3.150.

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In the 50th anniversary issue of The Myth of Mental Illness, Szasz conceded that, conceptually, his argument had been ignored because of the promulgation that mental illnesses are diseases of the brain. Responding to a recent editorial by T. Benning in the British Journal of Psychiatry Bulletin, which is somewhat critical of Szasz’s conceptual arguments, we argue that such criticisms are inaccurate. We highlight how no mental illness stands up to pathological scrutiny, yet treatments can cause iatrogenesis. In addition, we elaborate on how Szasz argued that the false concept of mental illness

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Spillane, Robert, and Paul Counter. "Szasz Under Friendly Fire: Damned With Faint Praise." Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry 23, no. 1 (2021): 51–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/ehpp-d-20-00022.

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This essay is a critical review of recent collections of articles by friends and colleagues of Thomas Szasz. Apart from the usual misunderstandings and wilful misinterpretations of Szasz's social psychology generally and critique of mental illness specifically, his friends and colleagues add a new dimension to Szaszian criticism by damning him with faint praise. Ignoring his indebtedness to social psychologist, George Herbert Mead, they interpret his work as an ideological defence of libertarianism, rather than as a logical critique of mental illness. A defence is, therefore, especially indica

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Westbrook, Donald A. "“The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend”." Nova Religio 20, no. 4 (2017): 37–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2017.20.4.37.

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This article analyzes the history and purpose of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a group co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology to educate the public on the alleged abuses of psychologists and psychiatrists and advocate for legal reform. Its other founder was Thomas Szasz, a non-Scientologist professionally trained as a psychiatrist who came to disagree with much of his field’s practices and methodologies. Until his death in 2012, Szasz remained supportive of CCHR and its crusade against “coercive psychiatry,” though the atheism, materialism, and libertarianism of his

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Bentall, Richard P., and David Pilgrim. "Thomas Szasz, crazy talk and the myth of mental illness." British Journal of Medical Psychology 66, no. 1 (1993): 69–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8341.1993.tb01727.x.

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Haskell, Robert E. "Thomas Szasz and Our Right to Drugs: Cracking the Constitution." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 35, no. 1 (1995): 21–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00221678950351004.

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Szasz, Thomas. "“Knowing What Ain't So”: R. D. Laing and Thomas Szasz." Psychoanalytic Review 91, no. 3 (2004): 331–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/prev.91.3.331.38304.

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Krgovic, Jelena. "Sartrean account of mental health." Theoria, Beograd 60, no. 3 (2017): 17–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/theo1703017k.

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The anti-psychiatrists in the 1960?s, specifically Thomas Szasz, have claimed that mental illness does not exist. This argument was based on a specific definition of physical disease that, Szasz argued, could not be applied to mental illness. Thus, by problematizing mental illness, the spotlight had turned to physical disease. Since then, philosophers of medicine have proposed definitions applying both to pathophysiological and psychopathological conditions. This paper analyzes prominent naturalist definitions which aim to provide value free accounts of pathological conditions, as well as norm

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Bamijoko-Okungbaye, Abiola. "Mental Disorder as an Illness: Szasz Revisited." Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Social Sciences 11, no. 2 (2022): 45–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/lumenss/11.2/69.

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Thomas Szasz was a psychiatrist with great intellectual sagacity, consistent and unwavering with his concept of mental illness. He famously argues that mental illness is a myth. If Szasz's arguments are prima facie propositions and mental health interventions are considered myth-making endeavors, psychopharmacological engagement during treatment might be the most unjustified coercion of this generation. For Szasz, mental disorders are in the realm of psycho-social-ethical-legal. He views the existing treatment model of mental illness as an ideological validation of coercion. This tension in hi

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Kelly, Brendan D., Pat Bracken, Harry Cavendish, et al. "The Myth of Mental Illness: 50 years after publication: What does it mean today?" Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine 27, no. 1 (2010): 35–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0790966700000902.

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AbstractIn 1960, Thomas Szasz published The Myth of Mental Illness, arguing that mental illness was a harmful myth without a demonstrated basis in biological pathology and with the potential to damage current conceptions of human responsibility. Szasz's arguments have provoked considerable controversy over the past five decades. This paper marks the 50th anniversary of The Myth of Mental Illness by providing commentaries on its contemporary relevance from the perspectives of a range of stakeholders, including a consultant psychiatrist, psychiatric patient, professor of philosophy and mental he

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Leff, Julian. "Comment on crazy talk: Thought disorder or psychiatric arrogance by Thomas Szasz." British Journal of Medical Psychology 66, no. 1 (1993): 77–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8341.1993.tb01728.x.

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Azibo, Daudi Ajani ya. "Thomas Szasz on Psychiatric Slavery Vis-à-Vis Restoring the African Personality." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 56, no. 6 (2016): 665–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022167815613885.

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CRESSWELL, MARK. "Szasz and His Interlocutors: Reconsidering Thomas Szasz's "Myth of Mental Illness" Thesis." Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 38, no. 1 (2008): 23–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5914.2008.00359.x.

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Benning, Tony B. "No such thing as mental illness? Critical reflections on the major ideas and legacy of Thomas Szasz." BJPsych Bulletin 40, no. 6 (2016): 292–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.115.053249.

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SummaryEnfant terrible of psychiatry and widely known as one of its most indefatigable as well as iconoclastic critics, Thomas Szasz (1961–2012) had a prolific writing career that extended some 51 years beyond the publication of his first book,The Myth of Mental Illness, in 1961. This editorial identifies and critically discusses three major themes in Szasz's writings: his contention that there is no such thing as mental illness, his contention that individual responsibility is never compromised in those suffering from what is generally considered as mental illness, and his perennial interest

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Wynne, Louis. "My Madness Saved Me: The Madness and Marriage of Virginia Woolf. Thomas Szasz." Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry 8, no. 3 (2006): 271–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1559-4343.8.3.271.

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Lomas, Peter. "A RESPONSE TO'DISCRETION AS POWER: IN THE SITUATION CALLED "PSYCHOTHERAPY"' BY THOMAS SZASZ." British Journal of Psychotherapy 15, no. 3 (1999): 370–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-0118.1999.tb00462.x.

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Schwartz, Michael Alan, and Osborne P. Wiggins. "Psychiatry Fraud and Force? A Commentary on E. Fuller Torrey and Thomas Szasz." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 45, no. 3 (2005): 403–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022167805277267.

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Spillane, Robert. "Thomas Szasz (1996) The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality and NeuroscienceWestport, Connecticut: Praeger." Journal of Management & Organization 3, no. 2 (1997): 53–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1833367200005940.

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Bansal, Janaki. "Critical reflections on psychiatry: Could Thomas Szasz still have relevance in modern medical practice?" BJPsych Bulletin 41, no. 2 (2017): 120–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.41.2.120a.

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Cooper, David B. "The Thomas S. Szasz Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Cause of Civil Liberties." Mental Health and Substance Use 2, no. 1 (2009): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17523280802630251.

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Spillane, Robert. "Thomas Szasz (1996) The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality and Neuroscience Westport, Connecticut: Praeger." Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management 3, no. 2 (1997): 53–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.5172/jmo.1997.3.2.53.

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Spillane, Robert. "Mental Illness: Fact or Myth? Revisiting the Debate Between Albert Ellis and Thomas Szasz." Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy 36, no. 4 (2018): 343–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10942-018-0290-x.

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Dixon, Stephen P., and Michael T. Smith. "Thomas Szasz' “critical reflections on child psychiatry”: An alternative view through a systemic lens." Children and Youth Services Review 7, no. 1 (1985): 45–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0190-7409(85)90039-8.

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Luty, Jason. "Psychiatry and the dark side: eugenics, Nazi and Soviet psychiatry." Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 20, no. 1 (2014): 52–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/apt.bp.112.010330.

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SummaryPsychiatrist Thomas Szasz fought coercion (compulsory detention) and denied that mental illness existed. Although he was regarded as a maverick, his ideas are much more plausible when one discovers that between 1939 and 1941, up to 100 000 mentally ill people, including 5000 children, were killed in Nazi Germany. In the course of the Nazi regime, over 400 000 forced sterilisations took place, mainly of people with mental illnesses. Other countries, including Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, had active forced sterilisation programmes and eugenics laws. Similar laws were implement

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