Dr. Thomas Szasz dies at 92; psychiatrist who attacked profession

Szasz argued that mental illness was not a disease but a problem in living and fought the use of medications, the insanity defense and committing people to mental institutions against their will.Dr. Thomas Szasz, the New York psychiatrist whose Don Quixote-like attacks on the psychiatric profession in the 1960s and 1970s led him to a position of prominence and influence before his radical ideas fell into disrepute and he faded into obscurity, has died. He was 92.

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