Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that… — E. Fuller Torrey Copy Share Image
From Hillary Clinton, in her own double-talking words, and from others, we understand that our children have been stolen from us by… — Michael Savage 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
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
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
Homosexuality is a psychological and psychiatric disorder, there is no question about it. It is a purple menace that is threatening the… — Charles W. Socarides Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was… — Gbenga Akinnagbe Copy Share Image
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.If a psychiatric… — Alfred Korzybski 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
The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something… — John Irving 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
In a psychiatric hospital, a lot of people believe that people on TV are talking to them directly through the screen. I'm… — Paul Merton 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
I'd been a psychiatric social worker for 17 years, but within 24 hours after I started the case against studying reading Bible… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“Psychiatric disorders are the only kind of sickness that we as a society regularly respond to not with sympathy but with handcuffs… — Anonymous 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
Faint hearts are encouraged when they read about others who, despite amputation, spinal cord injury, or psychiatric disorders have a vibrant trust… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
Foods of the Gods”) - “After water, cocoa is the single healthiest substance you can put in your mouth. It can easily… — Chris Kilham Copy Share Image
“While a psychiatric diagnosis can serve a purpose in treatment plans, it should not become a tool to discredit a person's disclosure… — Lee Ann Hoff 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
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
“From there, it was a psychiatric hospital for months and months. She was in and out of that place. Her survival tool… — Adria J. Cimino 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
It is the 'zoomorphic' or 'rattomorphic' fallacy - the expressed or implicit contention that there is no essential difference between rat and… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy Copy Share Image
The statistic that 67 percent of women's admissions to the psychiatric facilities are during the week before menstruation is critically important to… — Ayelet Waldman 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
There are people who believe that there should be a standard psychiatric examination for every presidential candidate and for every president. But… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
As a conscientious objector I did my community service in 1971 in a psychiatric hospital and a friend there, who also was… — Michael Rother 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
Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: 'Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to… — William Duncan Silkworth Copy Share Image
If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little… — Barbara Oakley Copy Share Image
“The brain-disease model takes control over people’s fate out of their own hands and puts doctors and insurance companies in charge of… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“As an undergraduate student in psychology, I was taught that multiple personalities were a very rare and bizarre disorder. That is all… — Deborah Bray Haddock 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
Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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