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Biography

Laissez Faire Books

Related Awards

The Thomas S. Szasz Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Cause of Civil Liberties
    granted by Center for Independent Thought

Associations

Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute
Advisor, Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics

Web Pages

Thomas Szasz - Libertarian
Advocates for Self-Government

Articles

Thomas Szasz - Hero of the Day, by Ralph Raico, The Daily Objectivist, 2000
35 Heroes of Freedom: Celebrating the people who have made the world groovier and groovier since 1968, Reason, Dec 2003
Related Topics: Reason's 35 Heroes of Freedom, John Ashcroft, Jeff Bezos, Norman Borlaug, Stewart Brand, William S. Burroughs, Curt Flood, Larry Flynt, Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater, Václav Havel, Friedrich A. Hayek, Robert A. Heinlein, Jane Jacobs, Alfred E. Kahn, Brian Lamb, Rose Wilder Lane, Madonna, Nelson Mandela, Martina Navratilova, Willie Nelson, Richard M. Nixon, Les Paul, Ron Paul, Ayn Rand, Dennis Rodman, Louis Rossetto, Julian L. Simon, Margaret Thatcher, Clarence Thomas, Ted Turner, Evan Williams, Philip R. Zimmermann
"Since the 1961 publication of The Myth of Mental Illness, the great and tireless critic of the therapeutic state (and longtime reason contributing editor) has never stopped pointing out the coercive implications of politicizing medicine and medicalizing politics."

Writings

Creativity and Criminality: The Two Faces of Responsibility, Nov 2000
Related Topic: Personal Responsibility
Originally published in Ideas on Liberty

Interviews

Curing the Therapeutic State: Thomas Szasz on the medicalization of American life, by Jacob Sullum, Reason, Jul 2000

Books Authored

Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted, 1994
Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences, 1987
Related Topic: Health
The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement, 1970
Related Topic: Health
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct, 1960
Related Topic: Health
Friedman and Szasz on Liberty and Drugs: Essays on the Free Market and Prohibition
    by Milton Friedman, Thomas S. Szasz, 1992
Related Topic: War on Drugs
Liberty Against Power: Essays by Roy A. Childs, Jr.
    by Roy A. Childs, Jr., Thomas S. Szasz (Foreword), Joan Kennedy Taylor (Editor), 1 Dec 1994
Related Topic: Liberty