Thomas Szasz Quotes About Madness

Quotes about: Madness

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

  Thomas Szasz

  Past, Men, Patient

  "The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1970.

• As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of madness arose and became of great social significance. In the next chapter I shall examine the creation of social deviants, and shall show that as formerly priests had manufactured heretics, so physicians, as the new guardians of social conduct and morality, began to manufacture madmen.

  Thomas Szasz

  Religious, Next, Physicians

  "The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1970.

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

  Thomas Szasz

  God, Madness, Schizophrenia

  The Second Sin (1973) "Schizophrenia"

• The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.

  Thomas Szasz

  Passion, Mind, Madness

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.203, Syracuse University Press

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