Thomas Szasz: Biography, Facts and Career
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Thomas Stephen Szasz ( SAHSS; Hungarian: Szász Tamás István [saːs]; 15 April 1920 – 8 September 2012) was a Hungarian-American academic and psychiatrist. He served for most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University. A distinguished lifetime fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a life member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he was best known as a social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, as what he saw as the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as scientism. Szasz maintained throughout his career that he was not anti-psychiatry but rather that he opposed coercive psychiatry. He was a staunch opponent of civil commitment and involuntary psychiatric treatment but believed in and practiced psychiatry and psychotherapy that involved consenting adults.
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- Full name: Thomas Szasz
- Born: 1920-04-15
- Nationality: Hungary
- Known as: Author
- Wikidata ID: Q66162
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Who is Thomas Szasz?
Thomas Stephen Szasz ( SAHSS; Hungarian: Szász Tamás István [saːs]; 15 April 1920 – 8 September 2012) was a Hungarian-American academic and psychiatrist.
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Thomas Szasz is Hungary.
When was Thomas Szasz born?
Thomas Szasz was born on 1920-04-15.
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