If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Too much possibility is the attempt by the person to overvalue the powers of the symbolic self. It reflects the attempt to… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“The sound of her phone shocked her out of the dark world that was currently playing in front of her eyes from… — Allie Burke Copy Share Image
“Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of… — Ross David Burke Copy Share Image
“Life wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of… — Allie Burke Copy Share Image
For schizophrenia, the recovery rate with drug therapy is under 15%. With nutritional therapy, the recovery rate is 80%. — Abram Hoffer Copy Share Image
We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong. — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
“Undiagnosed DID patients received incorrect diagnoses of schizophrenia in 25% to 40% of cases in two large series (Putnam, 1989; Ross, 1989),… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
An old joke puts its thus, "when a man speaks to a god its prayer , when a god speaks to a… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind… — Vittorio Gassman Copy Share Image
There are not schizophrenics. There are people with schizophrenia and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial… — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
There are people who are convinced supernatural forces are at work, but I've no idea. I suspect 'possession' might be a psychological… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses.… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are. — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
“What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.” — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“In the spring of 2009, I was the 217th person ever to be diagnosed with anti-NMDA-receptor autoimmune encephalitis. Just a year later,… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
