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Brief about Thomas Szasz: By info that we know Thomas Szasz was born at 1920-04-15. And also Thomas Szasz is American Psychologist.

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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.

Tags: Learning, Love, Successful

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.

Tags: Nature, Purpose, Show

Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.

Tags: Expert, Medicine, Testimony

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.

Tags: Human, Life, Work

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Tags: Age, Between, Old

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Tags: Children, Happiness, Living

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Tags: Forget, Stupid, Wise

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Tags: God, Talk, Talks

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

Tags: Children, Leadership, Learning

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

Tags: Self, Selfish, Yourself

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

Tags: Men, Mind, Society

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

Tags: Feeling, Serenity, Time

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.

Tags: Himself, Often, Self

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Tags: Adult, Child, Wrong

The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

Tags: Hand, Maybe, Yourself

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Tags: Courage, Rather, Thinking

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Tags: Men, Religion, Society

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

Tags: Doubt, Problems, Short

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

Tags: Eat, Human, Rule

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

Tags: Create, Men, Past
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