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Thomas Stephen Szasz (Szász Tamás István, 1920-2012) was an academic and psychiatrist. Born in Budapest, Hungary, he moved to the United States in 1938. He served for most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University. A distinguished lifetime fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a life member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he was best known as a social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, as what he saw as the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as scientism.
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