“I mention a paradox of psychiatry: mental illness is recognized by the patient's distorted thoughts, but treatment is largely indifferent to their content. (104)” — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“She thinks that if she gives it up, she'll lose the great abilities she believes she's acquired. It's a terrible paradox really: the mind falls in love with psychosis. The evil seduction, I call it. (186)” — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Returning to the apartment, I feel a bitter tipsy pleasure at the extent to which my world has fallen apart.” — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“I rehearsed Foucault's argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life we live… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“I mention a paradox of psychiatry: mental illness is recognized by the patient's distorted thoughts, but treatment is largely indifferent to their content. (104)” — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“If Sally had been in an accident or come down with some overtly physical disease, I would not hesitate to tell him about it,… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Spinoza spoke of vitality as the purest virtue, the only virtue. The drive to persist, to flourish, he said, is the absolute quality shared… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.” — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“For a long time I've wanted to apologize for my behavior that year, but I'm not sure how or even if it would be… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“She thinks that if she gives it up, she'll lose the great abilities she believes she's acquired. It's a terrible paradox really: the mind… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“She is determined to learn to anticipate her worst bouts of psychosis, and head them off before they overwhelm her. "I'm trying to recognize… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“It's something of a sacrilege nowadays to speak of insanity as anything but the chemical brain disease that on one level it is. But… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Eugen Bleuler (who in 1911 coined the word 'schizophrenia') once said that in the end his patients were stranger to him than the birds… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“I remember the tale of the rabbi to whom a dead man came with a problem: he believed that he was alive. "Don't you… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
