“Moreover, the concept of mental illness also undermines the principle of personal responsibility, the ground on which all free political institutions rest.”

— Thomas Szasz, The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct (1961), Conclusions

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1920 – 2012

Hungarian-American psychiatrist and author of "The Myth of Mental Illness".

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