Are you seeing a psychiatrist?' as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years… — Barbara Holland 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
All our anxieties relate to time. The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The destructive impact of psychiatry upon our civilization has been given far too little attention, and the role of psychiatry in Nazi… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
the idea of a finished human product not only appears presumptuous but even, in my opinion, lacks any strong appeal. Life is… — 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
Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normalbranch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a… — Frances Wriht Copy Share Image
When I am in Egypt, I am phoned because I am listed in the medical directory under "Mental Health and Psychiatry." And… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“The anti-psychiatrists held various, sometimes conflicting views but one particular line of reasoning is attributable to all of them—they all pitched their… — Zbigniew Kotowicz Copy Share Image
It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Equally serious is the complaint that psychoanalysis as a medical practice is a form of oppressive social control, labelling individuals and forcing… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“I think more people would stay active in church, if they didn't get so offended by the actions of members. Sometimes, you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“A little later, when breakfast was over and I had not yet gone up-stairs to my room, I had my first interview… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“A refusal on the part of psychiatrists and therapists to validate the horrors of their patients' tortured past implies a refusal to… — Felicity De Zulueta Copy Share Image
“Statistics say that a range of mental disorders affects more than one in four Americans in any given year. That means millions… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“The lifetime prevalence of dissociative disorders among women in a general urban Turkish community was 18.3%, with 1.1% having DID (ar, Akyüz,… — Paul H Blaney Copy Share Image
LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a… — Carl Jung 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
But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I think that's a major reason. Instead of turning in their own lives to philosophy, religion, love, family life, or nature, they… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
“Yet, I believe that my experience of depression has helped me to be a more humane and understanding therapist. Psychiatrists get depressed… — Linda Gask Copy Share Image
Psychiatrists are usually very well imbued with the clinical role, where helping the sick person is the goal. And that's quite incompatible… — Park Dietz 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
“I finally saw the whole conspiracy standing as plain as an elephant in the street; also the conspiracy was admitted to me… — R.A. Lafferty 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
“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
