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by PhasmaFelis 4507 days ago
I've just spent 20 minutes (all I can spare right now) reading up on Thomas Szasz, both at your link and on Wikipedia. He certainly had some good ideas (he's against homophobia and the drug war), but his position on mental illness seems to be that it doesn't exist, that people with debilitating mental conditions are faking it for attention or to get out of responsibilities, and that the correct response to someone considering suicide is to hand them a noose and say "have at it."

If you want me to take you or Szasz seriously, please demonstrate that all three of my assertions are incorrect, with citations.