# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-szasz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:37:53.246Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-szasz"
name: "Thomas Szasz"
slug: "thomas-szasz"
description: "Thomas Stephen Szasz 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."
tagline: "Hungarian psychiatrist (1920-2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr_Thomas_S_Szasz.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1920-04-15"
deathDate: "2012-09-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.396127968407971
  historical:           23.36774
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.szasz.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump