“Spinoza spoke of vitality as the purest virtue, the only virtue. The drive to persist, to flourish, he said, is the absolute quality shared by all living beings. What happens, however, when vitality is inverted, and instead of flourishing, one… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Returning to the apartment, I feel a bitter tipsy pleasure at the extent to which my world has fallen apart.” — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“I rehearsed Foucault's argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life we live… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“I mention a paradox of psychiatry: mental illness is recognized by the patient's distorted thoughts, but treatment is largely indifferent to their content. (104)” — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“If Sally had been in an accident or come down with some overtly physical disease, I would not hesitate to tell him about it,… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Spinoza spoke of vitality as the purest virtue, the only virtue. The drive to persist, to flourish, he said, is the absolute quality shared… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.” — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“For a long time I've wanted to apologize for my behavior that year, but I'm not sure how or even if it would be… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“She thinks that if she gives it up, she'll lose the great abilities she believes she's acquired. It's a terrible paradox really: the mind… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“She is determined to learn to anticipate her worst bouts of psychosis, and head them off before they overwhelm her. "I'm trying to recognize… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“It's something of a sacrilege nowadays to speak of insanity as anything but the chemical brain disease that on one level it is. But… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Eugen Bleuler (who in 1911 coined the word 'schizophrenia') once said that in the end his patients were stranger to him than the birds… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“I remember the tale of the rabbi to whom a dead man came with a problem: he believed that he was alive. "Don't you… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
