Thomas Szasz Quotes About Madness
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As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of madness arose and became of great social significance. In the next chapter I shall examine the creation of social deviants, and shall show that as formerly priests had manufactured heretics, so physicians, as the new guardians of social conduct and morality, began to manufacture madmen.
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The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.
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If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
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In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.
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