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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
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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