American - Psychologist | April 15, 1920 - September 8, 2012
Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
Thomas Szasz
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Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
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A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
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He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
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The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
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Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.
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Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
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