Professor Thomas Szasz, iconic champion for liberty, pioneer in the fight against coercive psychiatry and co-founder of Citizens Commission on Human Rights, has passed away at the age of  92.  Considered by many scholars and academics to be psychiatry’s most authoritative critic, Dr. Szasz authored hundreds of articles and more than 35 bookson the subject, the first being The Myth ofMental Illness, a book which rocked the very foundations of psychiatry when published more than 50 years ago.   Szasz was Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University of New York, Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, Lifetime Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Fellow of the International Academy of Forensic Psychology, whose life long list of educational accomplishments, credentials, honors, biographical listings and awards speak for themselves. 

To the world, he was the foremost critic on psychiatry and its abusive practices, a brilliant debater and orator.   To those who had the privilege of working alongside him, he was witty, charming, charismatic and fearless.  But above all else, he was a defender of personal liberty.  As Professor Richard E. Vatz of Towson University stated, “Thomas S. Szasz has steadfastly defended the values of humanism and personal autonomy against all who would constrain human freedom with shackles formed out of conceptual confusion, error, and willful deception.”

Szasz had long criticized the use of psychiatry as a means of social and political control stating, “Although we may not know it, we have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State.  This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.  When I use the term therapeutic state, I use it ironically, it’s therapeutic for the people who are doing the locking up, who are doing the therapy, it’s not therapeutic for the victims, for the patients.”

Dr. Szasz’s alliance with CCHR was formed out of this fundamental philosophy.  He didn’t just write and speak about the use of coercive psychiatry, he personally represented the victims of it.  In 1969 as a forming member of CCHR, he spoke on behalf of a Hungarian refugee, Victor Gyory, who had been involuntarily committed to a  psychiatric institution, stripped naked, held in isolation against his will, and forced to undergo electroshock.  Szasz established that it was solely due to Gyory’s inability to speak English that had resulted in psychiatrists labeling him schizophrenic.   Szasz’s testimony led to the hospital director discharging Gyory,  a precedent-setting victory against involuntary commitment and coercive psychiatry.

Of his alliance with CCHR, Szasz stated, “They were then the only organization,  and they still are the only organization,  who were active in trying to free mental patients who were incarcerated in mental hospitals with whom there was nothing wrong, who had committed no crimes, who wanted to get out of the hospital.  And that to me was a very worthwhile cause; it’s still a very worthwhile cause. We should honor CCHR because it is really the organization that for the first time in human history has organized a politically, socially, internationally significant voice to combat psychiatry. This has never happened in human history before.”

Tim Robbins speaks out about the psychiatric drugging of children and the need for parents and teachers to be more responsible. ADHD, ADD, school shootings, antidepressants.

Maria Bradshaw lost her only child to antidepressant induced suicide in 2008. She turned her personal tragedy into a crusade to help other parents on the dangers of antidepressant drugs and is founder of CASPER – Community Action on Suicide Prevention Education and Research. She worked closely with the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) in New Zealand ever since the tragic event and was the recipient of CCHR’s Human Rights Award 2012 for her work in raising awareness on the dangers of child drugging. She has an MBA from Auckland University.
Published on Jun 1, 2012 by CCHRInt

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