Thomas Szasz is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. His books include Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry, The Manufacture of Madness, Ideology and Insanity, Ceremonial Chemistry, The Myth of Psychotherapy, Psychiatry, and The Medicalization of Everyday Life.
[Thomas Szasz] is the preeminent critic of psychiatry in the world.--Richard Vatz, Towson University Liberty and autonomy have their most able defender in Thomas Szasz.--Sheldon Richman It takes an iconoclast with temerity and acumen to illuminate how unexamined myths and metaphors insidiously determine prevailing norms--norms considered unassailable and sacrosanct by the established medical/legal system.--Jeffrey K. Zeig, Director, The Milton Erickson Foundation