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The Life and Work of Thomas Szasz
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19:11Now PlayingThe 20th century, though marked by its flirtations with totalitarianism, was also filled with numerous luminaries passionately fighting for human freedom—familiar names like Ayn Rand, Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and Milton Friedman. Less well known, but no less important, was the Hungarian-born psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, who spent his career advocating for medical freedom, patient rights, and an end to psychiatric coercion. Along the way, he courted controversy for daring to challenge the orthodox position on mental illness, drug use, and suicide. Szasz passed away in 2012, but we caught up with his friend and colleague Dr. Jeffrey A. Schaler to share his thoughts and memories of one of psychiatry’s most courageous and iconoclastic figures.
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Free the People’s mission is simple—to make the values of liberty entertaining, accessible, and human. Free the People deliberately explores issues that bridge the partisan divide—topics like criminal justice reform, health care choice, and opposing corporate cronyism. We produce documentary films, video web series, and podcasts that illuminate the people and ideas changing the world for the better. We reach audiences across the political spectrum as a rational but passionate voice for liberty.
Free the People specializes in video production, creative storytelling, and social media engagement. We are building a community of people who believe in the values of freedom, entrepreneurship, individual responsibility, choice, and peaceful cooperation. Free the People finds and tells stories of people affecting positive change in their community through entrepreneurship and innovation. We defend free choice in everything from drug policy, to health care and retirement, to every aspect of the sharing economy. Our values, like "equal treatment under the law" and "innocent until proven guilty," animate fights for criminal justice reform. We tell the stories of people who have lived through the hardships of authoritarianism and collectivism throughout history. We show our viewers that beautiful things can happen when free people come together to make the world a better place.
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