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Thomas Szasz

1920 - 2012

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Thomas Stephen Szasz ( SAHSS; Hungarian: Szász Tamás István [saːs]; 15 April 1920 – 8 September 2012) was a Hungarian-American academic and psychiatrist. He served for most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University. A distinguished lifetime fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a life member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he was best known as a social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, as what he saw as the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as scientism. Szasz maintained throughout his career that he was not anti-psychiatry but rather that he opposed coercive psychiatry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Szasz is the 349th most popular physician (down from 341st in 2019), the 276th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 275th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Hungarian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Thomas Szasz ranks 349 out of 726. Before him are Horace Wells, Masawaiyh, Podalirius, James Curtis Hepburn, Karl Genzken, and Aëtius of Amida. After him are Paul Neumann, Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, William Cullen, Nikolai Korotkov, and Alfonso López Trujillo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Thomas Szasz ranks 146. Before him are Dick Francis, Alf Ramsey, John Maynard Smith, Paik Sun-yup, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, and Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani. After him are Michael Anderson, Heinz Kessler, Delbert Mann, Martine Carol, Philippa Foot, and Josefa Iloilo. Among people deceased in 2012, Thomas Szasz ranks 135. Before him are Włodzimierz Smolarek, Ignatius Moses I Daoud, Henry Hill, Lefter Küçükandonyadis, Al Freeman Jr., and Svetozar Gligorić. After him are Besse Cooper, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Iajuddin Ahmed, David Kelly, Andy Williams, and Marcos Alonso.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Thomas Szasz ranks 276 out of 1,077. Before him are Michu Meszaros (1939), Janus Pannonius (1434), Imre Steindl (1839), Miklós Fehér (1979), Rudolf Bauer (1879), and Pál Csernai (1932). After him are Isidor Gunsberg (1854), Ferenc Münnich (1886), Ferenc Mohácsi (1929), Ladislao Vajda (1906), Sándor Garbai (1879), and Béla Imrédy (1891).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Hungary

Among physicians born in Hungary, Thomas Szasz ranks 6. Before him are Ignaz Semmelweis (1818), Gabor Maté (1944), Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893), Kálmán Kalocsay (1891), and Eva Klein (1925). After him are Moritz Kaposi (1837), Edith Farkas (1921), Emil Zuckerkandl (1849), Vilma Hugonnai (1847), Gabriele Possanner (1860), and Jenő Kamuti (1937).

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