[oldplayer]

Thomas Szasz . . . a name I haven't heard for many years, but one I will never forget.

I was a freshman at Cal. State Fullerton in 1968. I took an upper level psychology course because it fit my schedule. Most students were Soph. or Junior psych majors. They fawned on the professor and I found the whole thing ludicrous because I was a "know nothing Freshman." I was still questioning. The prof didn't like me or my skepticism.

During a long term paper, I naturally chose to attack the professor's pet ideas. I found this guy Szasz on my own in the literature in the library. He expressed well what I only felt about the fraud of the psuedo-science of psychiatry.

My cites to Szasz in my paper made my prof go absolutely nuts! He demanded to know "who told" me about Szasz, like it was some big secret that I could not have discovered on my own! (I guess he wasn't used to students doing their own research.) The louder he became, the more convinced I was that Szasz was on to something. I rebelled on my final too, and took one of the few C's in my college career. I was proud of it because an "A" was just a butt-kiss away, but I earned my "C" instead!

Regardless of how posterity remembers Szasz, he will always have a spot in my heart.

Oldplayer

[Graybeard58]

During a long term paper, I naturally chose to attack the professor's pet ideas.

For that you should consider yourself fortunate to have gotten the "C".