162 Quotes by Thomas Szasz

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

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

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

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.

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

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

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