Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy…

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

— Marshall McLuhan

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

— Marshall McLuhan

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

— Marshall McLuhan

Some call it schizophrenia, I call it a career

— Ellen Greene

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

— Margaret Atwood

Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The management can…

— Stephen Fry

It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.

— Johnny Depp

Conventional psychiatry has emphasized the genetic roots of psychosis based on the claim that twin and other studies show that schizophrenia is 80% heritable,…

— Richard Bentall

“When had I stopped being a person with Paranoid Schizophrenia, and become a Paranoid Schizophrenic; defined by my illness?”

— Michaela Haze

Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways.…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong,…

— Tracy Thompson

“I am alone, but never lonely. I am lonely, but never alone.”

— Benjamin Aubrey Myers

“P.S. It's not schizophrenia, it's creativity, there is a difference. My voices go away after I let them tell their stories.”

— Ashley Newell

“I'd ask you to think outside the box on this, but it's obvious your box is broken. And has schizophrenia.”

— Ted Kosmatka

“A term came to her that they used on occasion at the shelter: the double bind...They used the expression in much the same way…

— Chris Bohjalian