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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Thomas Szasz
Born: April 15, 1920
Died: September 8, 2012 (aged 92)
Bio: Thomas Stephen Szasz was a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and academic. He served for most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York.
Known for:
- The Myth of Mental Illness (1961)
- Psychiatry: The Science of Lies (2008)
- The Manufacture of Madness (1970)
- The Medicalization of Everyday Life (2007)
- Coercion as Cure (2007)
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