“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
Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent...and remarkably… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of… — Cyril Burt Copy Share Image
Because I was in psychiatric treatment for most of my childhood and had to learn English and had to adjust to a… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
I too searched far and wide for the cure to addiction, but my medical and psychiatric background did not lead me to… — Abraham J. Twerski Copy Share Image
My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Well. There is a psychiatric occurrence we see in men-not often women-where they put all their hopes and dreams onto one person,… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
I have also been invited to talk to psychologists and psychoanalysts and I liked that very much. Because, they are the ones… — Judith Butler 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
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
Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is… — Peter Breggin 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
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
...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments. — William Sargant 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
I think that we're making a mistake if we don't see that there is a cultural basis to many illnesses, not just… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
There are literally Internet rescue camps in China and Korea to deal with children that are addicted. Internet disorder is maybe going… — Pico Iyer 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
To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you have nobody to help you. Really… — Iris Apfel 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
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
A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is… — R. D. Laing 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
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
[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
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