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Thomas Szasz

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Reasontv

We Shut Down State Mental Hospitals. Some People Want to Bring Them Back.

Is "mental illness" a fraudulent concept for locking up social deviants? Or does forced treatment free the ill "from the Bastille of their psychosis?"

Zach Weissmueller | 3.8.2019 1:08 PM

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Reason Podcast

Why Can't Psychedelics (and Other Drugs) Just Be for Fun?: Podcast

LSD, psilocybin, and other hallucinogenics are gaining new acceptance as serious medicine. But what if you want to do them just for fun, asks Jacob Sullum.

Nick Gillespie | 11.9.2018 3:20 PM

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Donald Trump

The Myth of Donald Trump's Mental Illness

Don't medicalize political judgments.

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2018 12:00 PM

Policy

45 Years, 45 Days: Is Mental Illness a Myth?

Marty Zupan | 7.16.2013 11:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Is Mental Illness a Myth?

Marty Zupan | 7.16.2013 11:00 AM

Politics

Was Thomas Szasz a Conservative?

Jacob Sullum | 5.12.2013 4:58 AM

Politics

A Goddamned Great E-Book of Reason Interviews! Hayek, Hitchens, Leary, Reagan, Szasz

Nick Gillespie | 1.10.2013 11:45 AM

Politics

New Reason eBook Features Interviews with F.A. Hayek, Ronald Reagan, Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Szasz, and Timothy Leary

5 great Reason interviews in one ebook

Cathy Reisenwitz | 12.21.2012 3:36 PM

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Policy

The Man vs. the Therapeutic State

A remembrance of Thomas Szasz, courageous defender of freedom and responsibility

Jacob Sullum | 11.23.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

Jacob Sullum on Thomas Szasz's Courageous Defense of Freedom and Responsibility

Reason Staff | 9.19.2012 7:00 AM

Policy

The Man Versus the Therapeutic State

Thomas Szasz's courageous defense of freedom and responsibility

Jacob Sullum | 9.19.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

U.S. Debt Worries Everybody, Thomas Szasz Dead at 92, Krugman Plays the Zombie Card: P.M. Links

J.D. Tuccille | 9.11.2012 4:30 PM

Civil Liberties

Thomas Szasz: How and Why the Great Libertarian Psychiatrist Thought What He Did

Brian Doherty | 9.11.2012 3:15 PM

Civil Liberties

Thomas Szasz, Libertarian Thinker, Dead at 92

Fought against the therapeutic state and the war on drugs, among many other causes of freedom

Reason Staff | 9.11.2012 1:30 PM

Policy

Misunderstanding Thomas Szasz

The late social critic was constantly misread.

Jesse Walker | 9.11.2012 1:02 PM

Policy

Thomas Szasz, Relentless Freedom Fighter, Dead at 92

Jacob Sullum | 9.11.2012 10:42 AM

Politics

Diagnosing in the Dark

The continuing relevance of Thomas Szasz's assault on psychiatric pretensions

Jacob Sullum | 9.27.2011 7:00 AM

Culture

Reason's Brian Doherty Wins Thomas S. Szasz Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Cause of Civil Liberties

Matt Welch | 9.20.2011 5:12 PM

Culture

Timothy Leary Speaks from Beyond the Grave

Jesse Walker | 7.5.2011 12:25 PM

Policy

Marcia Angell on 'The Illusions of Psychiatry' (Part II)

Jacob Sullum | 6.24.2011 12:04 PM

Culture

Charlie Sheen: Bi-Polar D-Bag or Szaszian Hero?

Nick Gillespie | 3.2.2011 9:01 PM

Politics

Thomas Szasz To Run Department of Health and Human Services

Jesse Walker | 11.19.2008 4:10 PM

Politics

On a Doctor's Moral Duty To Cut Off Limbs, or, It's a Szasz, Szasz, Szasz, Szasz World

Brian Doherty | 11.14.2008 9:44 AM

Policy

Will Britney Spears Place a Call to Thomas Szasz?

Nick Gillespie | 1.31.2008 7:26 AM

Politics

Thomas Szasz: Cho Enabler?

David Weigel | 4.24.2007 11:53 AM

Policy

A Szaszian Rorschach Test

Brian Doherty | 2.5.2007 10:35 PM

Politics

Tom Szasz on Terri Schiavo

Nick Gillespie | 11.17.2006 10:38 AM

Culture

Szaszian—Zsaszian?—Shout Out in Batman Begins

Nick Gillespie | 6.17.2005 4:31 PM

Policy

Thomas Szasz Takes on His Critics

Is mental illness an insane idea?

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Calling Thomas Szasz

Jesse Walker | 1.9.2003 10:56 AM

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Policy

Curing the Therapeutic State: Thomas Szasz interviewed by Jacob Sullum

Thomas Szasz on the medicalization of American life.

Jacob Sullum | 7.1.2000 12:00 AM

Politics

Psychiatry's Sacred Cow

Thomas Szasz and the mythology of mental illness

M. Grenander | 3.1.1979 12:00 PM

Psychology/Psychiatry

Against Mind Medicine

Four new contributions from the acerbic Dr. Szasz

Antony Flew | 11.1.1977 12:00 PM

Thomas Szasz

The Myth of the Myth of Mental Illness

Those ingenuous arguments against involuntary hospitalization are flawed.

John Kizer | 7.1.1977 12:00 PM

Politics

Straight Talk from Thomas Szasz

A REASON interview

Tibor Machan, Marty Zupan, and Al Waterman | 10.1.1974 12:00 PM

Psychology/Psychiatry

Farewell Babel

Ralph Raico | 3.1.1974 12:00 PM

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