Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I was in danger of having my children taken away from me when I needed five weeks in psychiatric care ... There… — Trisha Goddard Copy Share Image
Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help. — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests. — Allen Frances Copy Share Image
I've shot films in locations that have seemed haunted. I shot a film in a maximum-security prison in Russia. Part of it… — Norman Reedus Copy Share Image
I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
Barkley was the first of many American skyjackers whose primary interest was money; by 1972, the majority of the nation's hijackings would… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
Treatment Plans and Interventions for Depression and Anxiety Disorders provides clinicians with essential guidelines to treat patients in the era of managed… — Judith S. Beck Copy Share Image
Depression has been called the world's number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Viktor Frankl's timeless formula for survival. One of the classic psychiatric texts of our time, Man's Search for Meaning is a meditation… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
Having done a normal job for 10 years, as a psychiatric nurse dealing with emergencies, I know what terrible, hopeless lives some… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
My mom worked as a psychiatric social worker. She was interested in people, and I guess I am, too. So we would… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
People with what we call mental illness can indeed serve well, and people who have no discernible mental illness - and that… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system. — Trisha Goddard Copy Share Image
The moment you have massive social and political commentary trying to explain a phenomenon, then you know we are no longer dealing… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
“Having DID is, for many people, a very lonely thing. If this book reaches some people whose experiences resonate with mine and… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles… — Dale Archer Copy Share Image
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad ... he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives and frequently does. — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image