ABSTRACT
After three decades of friendship with Szasz-born on April 15, 1920, died on September 8, 2012-I eulogized him in the obituary the Times (London) invited me to write. Immediately below is what I submitted:
The Times’ obituary editors not only shortened and substantially edited what I submitted, but also failed to identify me as the author! The obituary was published anonymously in the Times on October 11, 2012: “Dr. Thomas Szasz psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who challenged the medical world with deeply unconventional views on the nature of mental illness” (p. 54).
