![]() Since the second anniversary of Szasz’ death on September 8 is now approaching, it seems a suitable occasion to publish it to a wider audience. ![]() It has continued to garner favorable remarks in private circulation. I was assigned to the last slot on the last of the five-day conference, to a session titled “Topics of Interest Rarely Presented.” (The first presentation discussed psychiatric patients’ self-assessments of body weight, while the third dealt with psychiatric morbidity among Bangladeshi women in rural and slum populations.) The audience was predictably small, but the paper was quite a hit among them. In the event, mine was the only paper to mention him, and the circumstances afforded me for presenting it proved challenging. Because Szasz had died late in 2012 I assumed it would be merely one of several retrospectives of his thought and influence. ![]() I presented the following comparison of the philosophic psychiatry of Thomas Szasz to the psychiatric philosophy of Epicurus in May 2014 at the 167th annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in New York City.
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