Birthdate: April 15, 1920
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary
Died: September 8, 2012
Thomas Stephen Szasz was a Hungarian-American academic and psychiatrist renowned for his critical perspectives on psychiatry. He was a professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University and held distinguished positions in the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychoanalytic Association. Szasz gained recognition for his influential works such as “The Myth of Mental Illness” and “The Manufacture of Madness,” advocating that mental illnesses are not genuine diseases but symbolic representations of human challenges. He opposed forced psychiatric interventions while endorsing voluntary psychiatric care.
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