The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“) “Do you hear his voice as you hear me? Is it a voice outside your head?” “It’s difficult to explain. It… — Olga Núñez Miret Copy Share Image
“Despite what you might think, NORMAL people do NOT cause problems, misfortunes, conflicts, distress or accidents. And when they do, they CAN… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“A Spanish poet, Antonio Machado, once said: ‘Dijiste media verdad. Dirán que mientes dos veces si dices la otra mitad.’” “Translated means…”… — Olga Núñez Miret Copy Share Image
“As mandatory reporting laws and community awareness drove an increase its child protection investigations throughout the 1980s, some children began to disclose… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
I like my psychiatrist she's kind, caring and compassionate but what woman wouldn't be for over a 100 dollars an hour? — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“There have been extensive human rights violations by American psychiatrists over the last 70 years. These doctors were pad by the American… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“[P]eople who have ECT need to be prepared for some memories not returning - and for not being able to choose which… — Kitty Dukakis Copy Share Image
Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence.... If we are to infiltrate the professional… — John Rawlings Rees Copy Share Image
“Perhaps my depression coincided with the start of every academic year and the subsequent increase in my workload. Or maybe there was… — Linda Gask Copy Share Image
I've had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months - it's sort of like getting your oil checked -… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
That's the New York thing, isn't it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“No conceptually regimented and normatively informed theory of mental disorder can be devised without taking philosophy of mind seriously and knowing something… — George Graham Copy Share Image
“DENIAL Defense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant realities is disavowed; refers to keeping out of conscious awareness any aspects of… — Benjamin Sadock Copy Share Image
Conventional psychiatry has emphasized the genetic roots of psychosis based on the claim that twin and other studies show that schizophrenia is… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
“For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
I really do like the things my mind conjugates even if my mind doesn't like me at times. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image