On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 2:22 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I have received a few emails this morning from various mental health > contacts that Thomas Szasz, famous critic of standard psychiatry, > libertarian gadfly and author of "The Myth of Mental Illness" died in New > York on September 8 (see: > http://www.tributes.com/show/Thomas-Stephen-Szasz-94416283). > > However, I have not been able to find confirmation of this in regular news > outlets using a google search, or searching places like the NYT and CNN. I > guess this is not as big a death in the general population as it is in my > field, but still he was a notable person, and I would think the kind of guy > that would rate an obit in the NYT, and he was old enough that they > probably had one ready to go. I am wondering if anyone else has heard > anything about this, or am I being suckered somehow? >
I had to leave home earlier this afternoon to take my daughter to the airport; having just returned him I see his obit is in the paper of record (famous people are not actually dead until we can read about it in the New York Times): http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/health/dr-thomas-szasz-psychiatrist-who-led-movement-against-his-field-dies-at-92.html -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
