pt 2 Quotes of Thomas Szasz MD

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Okay, this is part two of the quotes of Thomas Szasz, the great uh brilliant psychiatrist. First of all, I have a quote from another person. This is Joey Adams. He said, "A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions that your wife asks you for nothing."

[00:00:17]Yeah, wives prevent men from becoming conceited. Okay, Thomas Szasz.

[00:00:21]"Escalated metaphor is a metaphor taken to a higher level." The following quote is an escalated metaphor. Oh, that's my definition of an escalated metaphor.

[00:00:28]Here's Thomas Szasz. "Psychotherapy is the medicalization of human social problems, through and through, 100%.

[00:00:36]Psychoanalysis is medicalization squared.

[00:00:40]And psychiatry is medicalization cubed."

[00:00:43]Okay, that's brilliant. That exactly summarizes what a freaking joke psychology, psychoanalysis, and psychiatry is psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and psychiatry are.

[00:00:52]Okay?

[00:00:53]You should know that. We've talked about it before. I made plenty of videos and stuff about how the psychology Christianity is a lot better than the psychology of psychology.

[00:01:01]And the psychiatric medicines, none of them work. They're all cause brain damage. Thomas Szasz. "Being considered or labeled mentally disordered, abnormal, crazy, mad, psychotic, sick, it matters not what variant is used. It is the most profoundly discrediting classification that can be imposed on a person today.

[00:01:19]Mental illness casts the patient out of our social order just as surely as heresy or a witch cast them out of medieval society. That indeed is the very purpose of the stigma terms.

[00:01:34]You should do unto others as they want you to do unto them.

[00:01:39]Okay, Thomas Szasz continues. "As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his power to produce converts to his own cause and to create loyal followers of his own person, so the noble rhetorician uses language to wean men away from their inclination to depend on authority, to encourage them to think and to speak clearly, and to teach them to be their own masters. So, that's basically, you know, that sounds like Plato, that Socrates is the noble rhetorician and the sophists were the base rhetoricians, you know, in the uh Plato's dialogues from the Republic.

[00:02:14]Okay, Thomas Szasz continues. The less a person knows about the workings of the social institutions of society, the more he must trust those who wield power in them.

[00:02:25]And the more he trusts those people who wield the power, the more vulnerable he makes himself to becoming their victim.

[00:02:31]Yeah.

[00:02:32]Be careful about going for screening studies.

[00:02:35]You can end up with 5 years of follow-ups and uh $30,000 of bills and unnecessary surgery. Okay.

[00:02:44]Thomas Szasz continues. The fundamental conflicts in human life are not between competing ideas, one of which is true and the other is false, but rather they are between those who hold power and those who use it to oppress others, and those who are oppressed by that power and seek to free themselves of it.

[00:03:03]Yeah, most of us are poor proles, okay?

[00:03:05]And most people are stupid proles.

[00:03:07]>> [laughter] >> So, it's dangerous out there. That's why you want to learn how the world works to protect yourself from it. Anyways, that's it for part two of Thomas Szasz's quotes. Hope you found it helpful.