I’ve often wondered which, psychiatry or religion, has…

I think that one of the things that has happened is that psychiatry has become the religion of liberalism.

— Peter Breggin

I've had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months - it's sort of like getting your oil checked - I ask,…

— Rob Lowe

A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.

— William S Burroughs

“Perhaps my depression coincided with the start of every academic year and the subsequent increase in my workload. Or maybe there was a more…

— Linda Gask

Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence… If we are to infiltrate the professional and social…

— John Rawlings Rees

“[P]eople who have ECT need to be prepared for some memories not returning - and for not being able to choose which they will…

— Kitty Dukakis

Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to…

— Thomas Szasz

“There have been extensive human rights violations by American psychiatrists over the last 70 years. These doctors were pad by the American taxpayer through…

— Colin A. Ross

I like my psychiatrist she's kind, caring and compassionate but what woman wouldn't be for over a 100 dollars an hour?

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

— Harry Stack Sullivan

“As mandatory reporting laws and community awareness drove an increase its child protection investigations throughout the 1980s, some children began to disclose premeditated, sadistic…

— Michael Salter

“A Spanish poet, Antonio Machado, once said: ‘Dijiste media verdad. Dirán que mientes dos veces si dices la otra mitad.’” “Translated means…” “You told…

— Olga Núñez Miret

“Despite what you might think, NORMAL people do NOT cause problems, misfortunes, conflicts, distress or accidents. And when they do, they CAN apologize and…

— Robin Sacredfire

“) “Do you hear his voice as you hear me? Is it a voice outside your head?” “It’s difficult to explain. It isn’t a…

— Olga Núñez Miret

The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes…

— Sigmund Freud