“He had been diagnosed as suffering from atypical schizophrenia. Lord, how he hated that awful-sounding label. It conjured up visions of some… — Etienne de L'Amour Copy Share Image
When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate... Fans and other obnoxious pests… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm crazy all right. I do have plenty of psychoses. Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
He Stopped Loving Her Today" a fascinating book about the making of a record. Really, to be honest, it has some of… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Psychosis, it seemed to some, was in the air. One unhappy host played Phil a copy of Marshall McLuhan's 1968 LP The… — Erik Davis Copy Share Image
“Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Says Bargh: "We all hold dear idea that we´re the captain of our own sould, and we´re in charge, and it´s a… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
The United States does not have a monopoly on crazy people. It's not the only country that has psychosis. And yet we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“We can postulate that there must be diseases founded on a conflict between ego and super-ego. Analysis gives us the right to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“The irony of taking Anti Depressants: you take them to feel good but they also make you feel bad or worse because… — Mico Monsalve Copy Share Image
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis. — Karl Abraham 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
When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
This is the psychosis of being a human being - the things that we deal with on a day-to-day basis that make… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
Were I to put myself on... one of those online dating things, I would not include in my profile that I'm regularly… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you… — Marie Osmond Copy Share Image
Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you.… — Jason Beghe Copy Share Image
I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Americans are now certifiably insane. They are crazy. They are suffering a mass psychosis. They have lost their own ability to discern… — Joseph Farah Copy Share Image
I don't believe in, and I am a devout non-believer, in playing new songs live if the subjected and pathetic crowd has… — Peter Steele Copy Share Image
A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
At the population level, making the world more just and less unequal, while trying to figure out the toxic aspects of the… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
“Psychosis can happen out of the blue, to anyone, and no one knows why. Not even the best doctors on the planet.… — Jeannine Garsee Copy Share Image
“Crows played a significant Role during my Psychosis, they reminded me of the Apocalypse – even nowadays, their cawing reminds me to… — Sino Melo Copy Share Image
“Schizofrenia pana la ultima ei limita, refuzul total al oricarei realitati decat cea a visului, al oricarui adevar decat al viziunii.” — Gellu Naum Copy Share Image
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
There is also evidence from epidemiological studies that psychotic-like experiences are much more common than has hitherto been thought (with about 10%… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
“We’ve lived so long based on the seasons, or the phases of the moon,” I said. “Women are particularly vulnerable to it,… — Darren McKeeman Copy Share Image
