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  <name><![CDATA[Thomas Stephen Szasz]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Thomas Stephen Szasz (pronounced /sas/; born April 15, 1920 in Budapest, Hungary) is a psychiatrist and academic. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York. He is a prominent figure in the antipsychiatry movement, a well-known social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, and of the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as of scientism. He is well known for his books, The Myth of Mental Illness (1960) and The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement which set out some of the arguments with which he is most associated.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Budapest</hometown>  <born_at>04/15/1920</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition &amp; the Mental Health Movement]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts &amp; Pushers]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Age of Madness]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing as Religion, Rhetoric &amp; Repression]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis &amp; Psychiatry]]></title>
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