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# Thomas Szasz 

Former Adjunct Scholar 

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Thomas Szasz is professor of psychiatry emeritus at the Health Sciences Center, State University of New York. His many books include *Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers* (Learning Publications, 1985) and *Therapeutic State: Psychiatry in the Mirror of Current Events* (Prometheus Books, 1984). 

Thomas Szasz passed away in 2012.

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