Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by two main components: an inability to interact socially with other people with joint attention to… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines, — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
“victim noun \ˈvik-təm\ 1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder, in order to excuse your behavior.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition… — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
“Unlike people with other mental disorders, psychopaths are keenly aware of the impact that their behavior has on others. That’s half the… — Jackson MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“Anti-Americanism is not some bitter mental disorder inflamed by conspiracy theories and misplaced furies and envy. It is a broken heart, a… — Suzy Hansen Copy Share Image
“The DSM V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth edition) effectively eliminates the need to ask the question “What is… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Many families would like to avoid burdening future generations with inherited diseases such as haemophilia or severe developmental disorders. But most would… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
Narcissism is a psychological term that encompasses self-love, self-absorption and self-centeredness. This is even referred to as a mental disorder where one… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, the patients who presented to me self-diagnosed [with Dissociative Identity Disorder] had tried to tell previous therapists of their plight, but… — Richard P. Kluft Copy Share Image
The man Hillary [Clinton] introduced at the meeting goes so far as to say that no amount of trauma to children -… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
“the American physician Samuel Cartwright identifying in 1851 a mental disorder, drapetomania, evident only in slaves. The sole symptom was “the desire… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“Let’s take a quick look at what a psychopath is. Although the American Psychiatric Association (APA) no longer uses this term, much… — Robert Kirkconnell Copy Share Image
“A child who is being abused on an ongoing basis needs to be able to function despite the trauma that dominates his… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“The brain is an organ of aggression, and there are many roads to this Rome of imagined conquests — so many that… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Mistrust is the fuel for so much mental pain, so many mental disorders. I am not talking here about the suspicions we… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“When you’ve had a psychotic breakdown it’s always so difficult making that decision. You meet someone new and you wonder how much… — Cyma Rizwaan Khan Copy Share Image
“Meantime, other “feminist bibles”had appeared, Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex being the best. Which brings me to something no one believes.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“We must understand that those who experience abuse as children, and particularly those who experience incest, almost invariably suffer from a profound… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
“I wonder if I’ve got any of the 374 mental disorders,” I thought. I opened the manual again. And I instantly diagnosed… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“Don’t tell me you have OCD about this?” “OCD, ADHD—pretty sure if they come up with some new acronym tomorrow I’d have… — Cyma Rizwaan Khan Copy Share Image
“You know... the thing that is so wrong about being mentally ill is the terrible price you have to pay for survival.” — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Social anxiety disorder”—which essentially means pathological shyness—is now thought to afflict nearly one in five of us. The most recent version of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Let teens know that suicide is almost always the result of a complex mix of factors rather than a single event such… — Jennifer Ashton Copy Share Image
“No conceptually regimented and normatively informed theory of mental disorder can be devised without taking philosophy of mind seriously and knowing something… — George Graham Copy Share Image
The house has to be clean and in order because I have to be able to sift through the creative disorder in… — Alexis De Veaux Copy Share Image
There are still so many unanswered questions about what causes autism and other developmental disorders on the spectrum. So it is vital… — Manny Alvarez Copy Share Image
“A thousand times, people may have touched each other, but never ever sensed a single vein of oneness or complicity in the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“The killer's name was Michael Stone and he was a known psychopath. He had previous convictions. But the law stated that only… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“If you are an autistic synesthete, you may be held in higher esteem by some than if you do not have it.… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Ableism is discrimination against people with disabilities. It is the harboring of beliefs that devalue and limit the potential of people with… — Casey "Remrov" Vormer Copy Share Image
“There are men who wants only the woman; such are tagged, 'real men', and there are ones who want only their bodies;… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Far too often, children with developmental disorders are diagnosed solely on the basis of their observable behavior, slotted into broad diagnostic pigeonholes… — Aditi Shankardass Copy Share Image
“To look back before 1800 is to enter another world, one where the number of institutions for the mad was a tiny… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
“It seemed to him [Otto Kugelblitz] obvious that the human life span runs through the varieties of mental disorder as understood in… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
![“Interestingly, the patients who presented to me self-diagnosed [with Dissociative Identity Disorder] had tried to tell previous therapists of their plight, but had been disbelieved. These therapists had used fallacious "capricious criteria" (KIuft, 1988) to discredit the diagnosis; e.g., that the…” quote by Richard P. Kluft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0cc/richard-p-kluft-44450_capricious_interestingly-the-patients-who-presented_680376.jpg)
![“The man Hillary [Clinton] introduced at the meeting goes so far as to say that no amount of trauma to children - or poor parenting or anything in their lives - causes them mental disorders. He says it's all biological and genetic and should be treated by drugs.” quote by Peter Breggin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/093/peter-breggin-22000_amount_the-man-hillary-clinton-introduced-at-th_697679.jpg)
![“A child who is being abused on an ongoing basis needs to be able to function despite the trauma that dominates his or her daily life. That becomes the job of at least one ANP [apparently normal part of the personality], whom the child creates to be unaware of the abuse and also of the…” quote by Alison Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f94/alison-miller-20257_amnesia_a-child-who-is-being-abused-on-an-ongoin_1146863.jpg)
![“It seemed to him [Otto Kugelblitz] obvious that the human life span runs through the varieties of mental disorder as understood in his day—the solipsism of infancy, the sexual hysterias of adolescence and entry-level adulthood, the paranoia of middle age, the dementia of late life ... all working…” quote by Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/663/thomas-pynchon-533_human-life_it-seemed-to-him-otto-kugelblitz-obvious_467447.jpg)