The Myth of Psychotherapy Quotes

“This is Freud's most characteristic tactic. We can watch it unfold throughout his life and writings: he belittles, demeans, and attacks others - only to claim that he is belittled, demeaned, and attacked by them. His patients, dominated and exploited by his demands for "free association", are "resistant"; his colleagues, pressed into the service of his "cause", are "disloyal";(...)”
― Thomas Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy

“What, then, are psychotherapists and what do they sell to or impose on their clients? Insofar as they use force, psychotherapists are judges and jailers, inquisitors and torturers; insofar as they eschew it, they are secular priests and pseudomedical rhetoricians. Their services consist of coercions and constraints imposed on individuals on behalf of other persons or social groups, or they consist of contracts and conversations entered into by individuals on their own behalf.”
― Thomas Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy