Thomas Szasz Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.”

“'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.”

“There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.”

“When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.”

“He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.”