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
...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments. — William Sargant Copy Share Image
Much of today's psychiatric science is based on wish, myth, and politics... — Loren Mosher Copy Share Image
I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox. — Jack Osbourne Copy Share Image
I make the modest proposal that psychiatric care should be as easy to get as bullets at Wal-Mart. — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
Symptoms that may seem psychiatric or psychological can actually be signs of a medical condition. — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself. — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
People go for help, but their lives don't get better because of those psychiatric drugs. They get worse. They feel numb and… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
[Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The brain is not a bag of chemical soup, and it's a mistake to try to treat complex psychiatric disorders just by… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed. — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of… — John A. Stormer Copy Share Image
The similarities between street drug abuse and psychotropic prescription drug use are disturbing. Both types are toxic. Both can cause psychosis, damage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Following the school shootings, Hillary and Tipper Gore, as well as their husbands, got together for the first White House conference on… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
One year, I'd completely lost my bearings trying to follow potty training instruction from a psychiatric expert. I was stuck on step… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
In my opinion, advocating, allowing and practicing psychiatric and psychoanalytic dogmas within the church is every bit as pagan and heretical (and… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“The distinction between diseases of "brain" and "mind," between "neurological" problems and "psychological" or "psychiatric" ones, is an unfortunate cultural inheritance that… — António R. Damásio Copy Share Image
It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“The data on organised abuse has been simplified or distorted in an attempt force it to conform to mechanical psychological models of… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful… — Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Copy Share Image
We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
Judging people for whom they love (a same sex partner) rather than by whom they harm, should in itself merit a psychiatric… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
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