How can depression be real if our eyes arent real? Thomas Szasz More Quotes by Thomas Szasz More Quotes From Thomas Szasz Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous. Thomas Szasz independent self children We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living. Thomas Szasz cognitive-therapy should life-is 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. Thomas Szasz childhood fatherhood age 'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it. Thomas Szasz investing statistics clients 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. Thomas Szasz advice philosophy mean Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification. Thomas Szasz succeed gains self Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent...and remarkably popular products and practices. Thomas Szasz fast-food practice children Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but it cannot--despite the pretensions and protestations of psichiatrists--be both. Thomas Szasz medical disease helping The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr. Thomas Szasz evoke martyr victim Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic "causes" of these "conditions"? Thomas Szasz molecules names looks A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world. Thomas Szasz unhappy reason-why world Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished. Thomas Szasz psychiatry psychology children Mental illness, of course, is not literally a "thing" - or physical object - and hence it can "exist" only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist. Thomas Szasz mental-illness bipolar way We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control. Thomas Szasz birth states social The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories. Thomas Szasz categories ingredients religion The Christian ethic did not raise the worth of female life much above the Jewish: nor did the clinical ethic raise it much above the clerical. This is why most of those identified as witches by male inquisitors were women; and why most of those diagnosed as hysterics by male psychiatrists were also women. Thomas Szasz males female christian Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression. Thomas Szasz aggression theologian devil The great shift... is the movement away from the value-laden languages of... the "humanities," and toward the ostensibly value-neutral languages of the "sciences." This attempt to escape from, or to deny, valuation is... especially important in psychology... and the so-called social sciences. Indeed, one could go so far as to say that the specialized languages of these disciplines serve virtually no other purpose than to conceal valuation behind an ostensibly scientific and therefore nonvaluational semantic screen. Thomas Szasz psychology discipline humanity The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship. Thomas Szasz cohabitation faces men 'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing. Thomas Szasz illness medicine healing
