Thomas S. Szasz Quotes

Since the Freudian revolution, and especially since the Second World War, the secret formula has been this: If you want to debase what a person is doing, call his act psychopathological and call him mentally ill; if you want to exalt what a person is.

- Thomas S. Szasz

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