“There needs to be a nationwide awareness programme for all NHS staff, to educate them about dissociative disorders. Diagnoses need to be… — carol broad Copy Share Image
Mental illness is a real thing. It has real material consequences for people who suffer from it and at the time even… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
“I thought part of the idea of having therapy was putting one in touch with his or her feelings. And don’t give… — Olga Núñez Miret Copy Share Image
“Under the guise of helping the sick, oppressed and hopeless, psychiatry is paving the way for authoritarian governments to suppress a whole… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“What do you think of Cain’s affirmations?” “He never told a lie. If he says that God talks to him, he is… — Olga Núñez Miret 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
“There are a range of useful and illuminating analyses of the media construction of organised abuse as it became front-page news in… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“It is the sad privilege of medicine, and especially that of psychiatry, to ever witness the weaknesses of human nature and the… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry. — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
“Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines.” — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
I practiced medicine up 'til now. I practice psychiatry. I shifted from different specialties. I started as a village doctor - community… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“I’ve often wondered which, psychiatry or religion, has done more damage. Between them, they about owned it all.” — William Brinkley Copy Share Image
Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release. — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that… — Harry Segall Copy Share Image
The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered. — Malcolm Rogers Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“You must have been working very hard here, with so few distractions.” Mary’s eyes darkened and she looked away. “Not quite as… — Olga Núñez Miret Copy Share Image
“The maladies of the spirit alone, in abstracto, that is, error and sin, can be called diseases of the mind only per… — Ernst Von Feuchtersleben Copy Share Image
“Patients coming for consultation complain about headaches, sexual disturbances, inhibitions in work, or other symptoms; as a rule, they do not complain… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
