Editing Thomas Szasz (section)

== Life and death ==

Szasz was born on April 15, 1920, in [[Budapest]], Hungary, the second son of Jewish parents Gyula and Lily Szász. In 1938, the family moved to the United States, where he attended the [[University of Cincinnati]] for his Bachelor of Science in physics, followed by an MD.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ftrbooks.net/psych/bios/thomas_szasz.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020815090539/http://www.ftrbooks.net/psych/bios/thomas_szasz.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 15, 2002 |title=Thomas Stephen Szasz biography – psychiatrist, libertarian, renegade to psychiatry |publisher=FTR books |date=October 19, 1951 |access-date=September 26, 2011 }}</ref> 

Szasz completed his residency requirement at the [[Cincinnati General Hospital]], then trained as a psychoanalyst at [[Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis]] from 1951 to 1956. He took a position as a professor at SUNY in 1956 and received tenure in 1962, taking 24 months out for duty as a practicing psychiatrist with the U.S. Naval Reserve.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.szasz.com/intro.html | title = Introduction | publisher = Szasz | access-date = September 26, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110927050810/http://www.szasz.com/intro.html | archive-date = September 27, 2011 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name=Oliver>{{cite journal|author1=Oliver, Jeffrey|title=The Myth of Thomas Szasz|journal=[[The New Atlantis (journal)|The New Atlantis]]|date=Summer 2006|issue=13|pages=68–84|pmid=17152134|url=http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-myth-of-thomas-szasz|volume=13|access-date=2009-12-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091206144714/http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-myth-of-thomas-szasz|archive-date=2009-12-06|url-status=live}}</ref> 

Szasz had two daughters. His wife, Rosine, died in 1971.<ref name="Carey"/> Szasz's colleague Jeff Schaler described her death as a suicide.<ref name="szas_Thom">{{Cite web |title=Kaddish for Thomas Szasz |work=szasz.com |access-date=2 December 2019 |url=http://www.szasz.com/szaszdeath.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214095354/http://www.szasz.com/szaszdeath.htm |archive-date=14 December 2019 |url-status=live |first=Jeffrey A. |last=Schaler |author-link=Jeffrey Schaler}}</ref>

Thomas Szasz ended his own life on September 8, 2012, after suffering a painful spinal-compression fracture from a recent fall. Szasz had previously argued for the [[right to die]] in his writings.<ref name="szas_Thom"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr. Thomas Szasz dies at 92; psychiatrist who attacked profession |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-thomas-szasz-20120917-1-story.html |first=Thomas H |last=Maugh |date=September 17, 2012 |work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/health/dr-thomas-szasz-psychiatrist-who-led-movement-against-his-field-dies-at-92.html |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121101043959/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/health/dr-thomas-szasz-psychiatrist-who-led-movement-against-his-field-dies-at-92.html |archive-date=November 1, 2012 |title=Dr. Thomas Szasz, Psychiatrist Who Led Movement Against His Field, Dies at 92 |first=Benedict |last=Carey |website=New York Times|date=September 11, 2012}}</ref>