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41
Citations
13108
World Ranking
7718
National Ranking
4134

Overview

Thomas S. Szasz is affiliated with SUNY Upstate Medical University in the United States. Their academic contributions include a range of works primarily focused on critical perspectives of medicine and psychiatry.

Their book publications include a title published by Syracuse University Press eBooks:

  • The Medicalization of Everyday Life (2022), which has garnered 55 citations.

Although recent peer-reviewed papers, frequent co-authors, and publication venues are not listed, the available information highlights the scientist's involvement with the discourse on medicalization.

There are no records of awards won. The scientist remains active and is not deceased.

Best Publications

  • The Myth of Mental Illness

    Thomas S. Szasz

  • The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct

    Thomas Stephen Szasz

  • A contribution to the philosophy of medicine; the basic models of the doctor-patient relationship.

    Thomas S. Szasz;Marc H. Hollender

  • The Manufacture of Madness

    John T. Dulin;Thomas A. Szasz

  • The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct.

    J. D. Uytman;Thomas S. Szasz

  • The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement

    Thomas Stephen Szasz

  • Law, liberty, and psychiatry

    Steven Umin;Thomas S. Szasz

  • The Ethics of Psychoanalysis

    Thomas S. Szasz

  • Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences

    Thomas Stephen Szasz

  • Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts and Pushers

    Thomas Stephen Szasz

  • Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man

    Thomas Stephen Szasz

  • Law, Liberty, And Psychiatry: An Inquiry Into The Social Uses Of Mental Health Practices

    Thomas Stephen Szasz

  • The second sin

    Thomas Stephen Szasz

  • Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry

    Thomas Stephen Szasz

  • Pain and Pleasure: A Study of Bodily Feelings

    Thomas Stephen Szasz

  • The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 1: conceptual and definitional issues in psychiatric diagnosis

    James Phillips;Allen Frances;Michael A. Cerullo;John Chardavoyne

  • The psychiatric will. A new mechanism for protecting persons against "psychosis" and psychiatry.

    Thomas S. Szasz

  • The uses of naming and the origin of the myth of mental illness.

    Thomas S. Szasz

  • Routine Neonatal Circumcision: Symbol of the Birth of the Therapeutic State

    Thomas Szasz

  • THE CONCEPT OF TRANSFERENCE.

    Thomas S. Szasz

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel Paris
Joel Paris McGill University
Jerome C. Wakefield
Jerome C. Wakefield New York University
Isaac Marks
Isaac Marks King's College London
Jerome D. Frank
Jerome D. Frank Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Brendan D. Kelly
Brendan D. Kelly Trinity College Dublin

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