Quotes by Thomas Szasz

Thomas Szasz

‘Psychotherapy’ is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

Healing

Illness

Medicine

‘Statistics’ show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don’t show is that 72% are cured without it.

Clients

Investing

Statistics

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

Children

Family

Maturity

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.

Reason Why

Unhappy

World

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

Education

Retirement

Teacher

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.

Addiction

Anorexia

Political

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.

Age

Childhood

Fatherhood

After generations of living under medical tutelage, which provides us with protection (albeit illusory) against “dangerous drugs”, we have failed to cultivate the self-reliance and self-discipline we must possess as competent adults surrounded by the fruits of our pharmacological-technological age.

Discipline

Drug

Self

Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood hurts into private shrines at which they worship unceasingly the enormity of the offenses committed against them. This solution is immensely flattering to the patients — as are all forms of unmerited self-aggrandizement; it is immensely profitable for the analysts — as are all forms pandering to people’s vanity; and it is often immensely unpleasant for nearly everyone else in the patient’s life.

Hurt

Self

Vanity

All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

America

Humor

Intelligent

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Agents

Aggression

Air

America

Anger

Animal

Anorexia

Antibiotics

Astrology

Attitude

Autobiography

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Battle

Becoming

Being Real

Belief

Believe

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Birth

Bitter

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Quotes by Thomas Szasz

Thomas Szasz

‘Psychotherapy’ is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

‘Statistics’ show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don’t show is that 72% are cured without it.

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

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.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

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.

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.

All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

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