To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the…

“One's appreciation of, and understanding of the normal or the usual is requisite for any understanding of the abnormal or the unusual.”

— Milton Erickson

Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.

— Emmanuel Jal

One of the difficulties with grief research is that it risks making certain kinds of grief seem normal and others abnormal - and of…

— Meghan O'Rourke

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

— Vance Havner

Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.

— Watchman Nee

My work involves the physical manifestation of emotional reality. Thus, the invisible becomes visible; the normal, abnormal; and the familiar, unfamiliar. Ordinary life is…

— Sandy Skoglund

“A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even be an…

— Irving Kirsch

In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by…

— Camille Paglia

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the…

— Breyten Breytenbach

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as…

— Anonymous

I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved…

— Bear McCreary

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

— Henry Adams

“The abnormal ones stand out. Thankfully I'm abnormal.”

— Marion Bekoe

While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so necessary? As it turns out, mood disorders…

— Andrew Weil