Thomas Szasz
Thomas Stephen Szasz was a Hungarian-American psychiatrist born on April 15, 1920, in Budapest.
He served as Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, becoming one of the most prominent and controversial figures in the antipsychiatry movement.
A fierce social critic, Szasz challenged the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, arguing it functioned as an instrument of social control rather than genuine medicine.
His landmark writings, particularly The Myth of Mental Illness and The Manufacture of Madness, cemented his legacy as a radical voice against psychiatric institutionalization and medicalization.
