Frases de Thomas Szasz (81 citas, página 3)

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“Si hablas con Dios, estás rezando; si Dios te habla a ti, tienes esquizofrenia. Si los muertos te hablan, eres un espiritista; si tú hablas con los muertos, eres un esquizofrénico.”

Thomas Szasz

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; If you talk to the dead, you are a schizophrenic
Fuente: The Second Sin, Anchor/Doubleday, Garden City, NY. 1973, "Schizophrenia", página 113 (101 en otras ediciones).
Fuente: Cita inicial en la web de The Thomas Szasz Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility http://www.szasz.com/

“Los hombres desean la libertad, pero al mismo tiempo la temen.”

Thomas Szasz

Fuente: Szasz, Thomas (traducción de Pierre Sullivan ¿a qué idioma?). Idéologie et Folie, p. 42, 1976, éditeur PUF.

“Si tú hablas a Dios, estás rezando; si Dios te habla a ti, tienes esquizofrenia. Si los muertos te hablan, eres un espiritista; si tú hablas a los muertos, eres un esquizofrénico.”

Thomas Szasz

Cita inicial en la web de The Thomas Szasz Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility
Original: «If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; If you talk to the dead, you are a schizophrenic».
Fuente: The Second Sin, Anchor/Doubleday, Garden City, NY. 1973, "Schizophrenia", página 113 (101 en otras ediciones).
Fuente: The Thomas Szasz Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility http://www.szasz.com/

“Los adultos atribuyen la felicidad a los niños, y los niños, a los adultos.”

Thomas Szasz

“No es que los diagnósticos psiquiátricos estén desprovistos de sentido; lo que es grave es que pueden ser utilizados —y usualmente lo son— como aturdidores semánticos: romper la respetabilidad y la dignidad de un individuo lo destruye tan eficazmente o más como romper su cuello.”

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“Lo que debemos recordar es que, cuanto más estropeada y vulnerable esta la imagen que una persona tiene de sí misma, mayor es su necesidad de reforzarla y salvaguardarla.”

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“La medicina es una ciencia natural; la psiquiatría es una ciencia moral.”

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Ciencia

“Tenemos la costumbre de definir la psiquiatría como la especialidad de la medicina que se interesa en el estudio, diagnóstico y tratamiento de las enfermedades mentales. Esta definición es falaz. La enfermedad mental es un mito. Los psiquiatras no se preocupan tanto de la enfermedad mental como de su tratamiento. En la práctica, están lidiando con problemas personales, sociales y ética de la existencia.”

Thomas Szasz

Fuente: Szasz, Thomas (traducción de Denise Berger). Le Mythe de la maladie mentale, 1977, éditeur Payot [ref. incompleta]

Problema , De enfermedades

“El hecho de que utilicemos la energia atómica con fines bélicos no transforma los conflictos internacionales en problemas de física; del mismo modo, el hecho de que el comportamiento humano utilice el cerebro no transforma los conflictos morales y personales en problemas de medicina.”

Thomas Szasz

Fuente: Szasz, Thomas (traducción de Denise Berger). Le Mythe de la maladie mentale, 1977, éditeur Payot [ref. incompleta]

Problema , Comportamiento

“La clasificación es un acto social que requiere la participación de al menos tres tipos de personas: el clasificador, el clasificado y un público que acepta o rechaza la clasificación.”

Thomas Szasz

“Aquellos que están habituados a ser vigilados viven como si estuvieran en un escenario. Han aprendido a ocultarse bajo una máscara impersonal. Solos, sin público, sin vigilancia, se topan con ellos mismos y, habiendo encontrado un fantasma, se horrorizan.”

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Thomas Szasz: Frases en inglés

“By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice.”

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Thomas Szasz

Fuente: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1997), p. 167.

“Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.”

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Fuente: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1997), p. 172.

“Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic “causes” of these “conditions?””

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Fuente: The Second Sin (1973), p. 102.

“The great shift … is the movement away from the value-laden languages of … the “humanities,” and toward the ostensibly value-neutral languages of the “sciences.” This attempt to escape from, or to deny, valuation is … especially important in psychology … and the so-called social sciences. Indeed, one could go so far as to say that the specialized languages of these disciplines serve virtually no other purpose than to conceal valuation behind an ostensibly scientific and therefore nonvaluational semantic screen.”

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Fuente: Anti-Freud (1990), p. 44.

“This connection, at once semantic and conceptual, between unorthodoxy and sodomy, was firmly established during the late Middle Ages, and has never been severed. It is as strong today as it was six hundred years ago. To be stigmatized as a heretic or bugger in the fourteenth century was to cast out of society. Since the dominant ideology was theological, religious deviance was considered so grave an offense as to render the individual a nonperson. Whatever redeeming qualities he might have had counted for naught. The sin of heresy eclipsed all contradictory, personal characteristics, just as the teachings of God and the Church eclipsed all contradictory empirical observations. The disease called “mental illness”—and its subspecies “homosexuality”—plays the same role today.”

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Fuente: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1997), p. 166.

“Psychiatry is institutionalized scientism: it is the systematic imitation, impersonation, counterfeiting, and deception. This is the formula: every adult smokes (drinks, engages in sexual activity, etc.); hence, to prove that he is an adult, the adolescent smokes (drinks, engages in sexual activity, etc). Mutatis mutandis: every science consists of classification, control, and prediction; hence to prove psychiatry is a science, the psychiatrist classifies, controls, predicts. The result is that he classifies people as mad; that he confines them as dangerous (to themselves or others); and that he predicts people's behavior, robbing them of their free will and hence of their very humanity.”

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"Science and Scientism", p. 115.
The Second Sin (1973)

“It is customary to define psychiatry as a medical specialty concerned with the study, diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses. This is a worthless and misleading definition. Mental illness is a myth. Psychiatrists are not concerned with mental illnesses and their treatments. In actual practice they deal with personal, social and ethical problems in living.
I have argued that, today, the notion of a person "having a mental illness" is scientifically crippling. It provides professional assent to a popular rationalization — namely that problems in living experienced and expressed in terms of so-called psychiatric symptoms are basically similar to bodily diseases.
Moreover, the concept of mental illness also undermines the principle of personal responsibility, the ground on which all free political institutions rest.”

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Conclusions.
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct (1961)

“As Justice Olive Wendell Holmes, Jr. put it, censorship rests on the idea that “every idea is an incitement.” Perhaps he should have specified “every interesting idea,” for a dull idea is not. By the same token, every interesting drug is an incitement. And so is everything else that people find interesting.”

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Fuente: Our Right to Drugs (1992), p. 35.

“The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr.”

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Fuente: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1997), p. 169.

“Prostitution is said to be the world’s oldest profession.”

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It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control over himself … in exchange for money. Because of the passivity it entails, this is a difficult and, for many, a distasteful role.
Fuente: The Second Sin (1973), p. 45.