By Daniel Burston In “The Secular Cure of Souls” (JSEA, issue 14.2), and a talk delivered to the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education on November 2, 2002, entitled “The Cure of Souls in The Therapeutic State”, Thomas Szasz goes to great lengths to differentiate between himself from R.D. Laing, whose life and work I have studied in some detail. It