Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Thomas Szasz" in English language version.
The significance of the affective use of body language – or generally, of the language of illness – can hardly be exaggerated.... It is part of our social ethic that we ought to feel sorry for sick people and should try to be helpful to them. Communications by means of body signs may therefore be intended mainly to induce the following sorts of feelings in the recipient: "Aren't you sorry for me now? You should be ashamed of yourself for having hurt me so! You should be sad seeing how I suffer...." and so forth.... [T]he flamboyant "schizophrenic body feelings" encountered today, represent communications in the contexts of specific social situations. Their aim is to induce mood rather than to convey information. They thus make the recipient of the message feel as if he had been told: "Pay attention to me! Pity me! Scold me!" and so forth.... [C]hildren and women often can get their way with tears where their words would fall on deaf ears – and so can patients with symptoms. The point is that when some persons in some situations cannot make themselves heard by means of ordinary language – for example, speech or writing – they may try to make themselves heard by means of protolanguage, for example, weeping or "symptoms".... We have come thus to speak of all these silent and not-so-silent cries and commands, pleas and reproaches – that is, of all these endlessly diverse "utterances" – as so many different mental illnesses!
The significance of the affective use of body language – or generally, of the language of illness – can hardly be exaggerated.... It is part of our social ethic that we ought to feel sorry for sick people and should try to be helpful to them. Communications by means of body signs may therefore be intended mainly to induce the following sorts of feelings in the recipient: "Aren't you sorry for me now? You should be ashamed of yourself for having hurt me so! You should be sad seeing how I suffer...." and so forth.... [T]he flamboyant "schizophrenic body feelings" encountered today, represent communications in the contexts of specific social situations. Their aim is to induce mood rather than to convey information. They thus make the recipient of the message feel as if he had been told: "Pay attention to me! Pity me! Scold me!" and so forth.... [C]hildren and women often can get their way with tears where their words would fall on deaf ears – and so can patients with symptoms. The point is that when some persons in some situations cannot make themselves heard by means of ordinary language – for example, speech or writing – they may try to make themselves heard by means of protolanguage, for example, weeping or "symptoms".... We have come thus to speak of all these silent and not-so-silent cries and commands, pleas and reproaches – that is, of all these endlessly diverse "utterances" – as so many different mental illnesses!
The Nazis sought to prevent Jewish suicides. Wherever Jews tried to kill themselves – in their homes, in hospitals, on the deportation trains, in the concentration camps – the Nazi authorities would invariably intervene in order to save the Jews' lives, wait for them to recover, and then send them to their prescribed deaths.
The Nazis sought to prevent Jewish suicides. Wherever Jews tried to kill themselves – in their homes, in hospitals, on the deportation trains, in the concentration camps – the Nazi authorities would invariably intervene in order to save the Jews' lives, wait for them to recover, and then send them to their prescribed deaths.
