Thomas Szasz Quotes:
Ocupation: Psychiatrist
Life: April 15, 1920 - September 8, 2012
Birthday: April 15
Death: September 8
By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice.
source: Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.167, Syracuse University Press
topic: Practice, Agents, Medical, Social Control, Disobeying
