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<p>Nmartin: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Wikipedia text|Thomas_Szasz|399588815}}<br /> <br /> '''Thomas Stephen Szasz''' (pronounced Saas) (April 15, 1920 - September 8, 2012) was a psychiatrist, academic, and prolific libertarian writer. After 1990 he was Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York. He was a well-known social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, and of the [[social control]] aims of medicine in modern society, as well as of [[scientism]]. He was well known for his books ''The Myth of Mental Illness'' (1960) and ''The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement'' (1970), which set out some of the arguments with which he is most associated.<br /> <br /> His views on special treatment followed from [[classical liberalism|classical liberal]] roots which are based on the principles that each person has the right to bodily and mental [[self-ownership]] and the right to be free from violence from others, although he criticized the &quot;[[Free World]]&quot; as well as the [[Communist state]]s for its use of psychiatry and &quot;drogophobia&quot;. He believed that suicide, the practice of [[medicine]], use and sale of drugs and sexual relations should be private, contractual, and outside of state jurisdiction.<br /> <br /> ==Links==<br /> * [http://mises.org/daily/5403/Libertarian-Psychology &quot;Libertarian Psychology&quot;], Mises Daily by Jeff Riggenbach<br /> * [https://mises.org/literature.aspx?action=author&amp;Id=426 Mises Literature Archive for Thomas S. Szasz]<br /> * [http://www.szasz-texte.de/publist.html Bibliography] of Thomas Szasz's writings<br /> <br /> {{stub}}<br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Szasz, Thomas}}<br /> [[Category:Libertarians]]<br /> [[Category:Psychiatrists]]</div>

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