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People dream of making the vi...

People dream of making the virtuous powerful, so they can depend upon them. Since they cannot do that, people choose to make the powerful virtuous, glorifying in becoming victimized by them.

Thomas Szasz 169 quotes

Addiction, obesity, starvatio...

Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.

Thomas Szasz 169 quotes

When the psychiatrist approve...

When the psychiatrist approves of a person's actions, he judges that person to have acted with "free choice"; when he disapproves,he judges him to have acted without "free choice." It is small wonder that people find "free choice" a confusing idea: "free choice" appears to refer to what the person being judged (often called the "patient") does, whereas it is actually what the person making the judgment (often a psychiatrist or other mental health worker) thinks.

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If someone does something we ...

If someone does something we disapprove of, we regard him as bad if we believe we can deter him from persisting in his conduct, but we regard him as mad if we believe we cannot.

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What people really need and d...

What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing

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Men are rewarded or punished ...

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

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Marriages are said to be made...

Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.

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Mental illness, of course, is...

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.

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If you talk to God, you are p...

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

Thomas Szasz 169 quotes

Adulthood is the ever-shrinki...

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.

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Doubt is to certainty as neur...

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.

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Narcissist: psychoanalytic te...

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.

Thomas Szasz 169 quotes

People often say that this or...

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.

Thomas Szasz 169 quotes

Individual psychotherapy - th...

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.

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In the animal kingdom, the ru...

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

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Two wrongs don't make a right...

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

Thomas Szasz 169 quotes

If the dead talk to you, you ...

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

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The proverb warns that 'You s...

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

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When a person can no longer l...

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

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Every act of conscious learni...

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.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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