What had been drapetomania became depression. ... Modern ma… - Thomas Szasz

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What had been drapetomania became depression. ... Modern man runs away from a life that seems to him a kind of slavery.

Thomas Szasz

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Thomas Szasz (April 15, 1920 – September 8, 2012) was a Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York, and a noted critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry.

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Native Name: Thomas Stephen Szasz

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In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

The crime [homosexuality] was subject to punishment by both secular and ecclesiastical courts—just as now it is subject to punishment by both penal and psychiatric sanctions.

What had been drapetomania became depression. ... Modern man runs away from a life that seems to him a kind of slavery. - Thomas Szasz

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