Diagnosis Quote by Allen Frances

There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental…

— Allen Frances

There is almost no evidence that diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' correspond to discrete entities ('natural kinds' in the language of philosophy).

— Richard Bentall

“Controversy has always existed among psychiatrists and psychologists about the validity of personality diagnosis. Some believe in the merits of the enterprise and devote…

— Irvin D. Yalom

The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere…

— Eric Kandel

Mental illness is so hard to define. It's not like an umbrella diagnosis that everyone can fall under, and even one person can have…

— Stephanie Labbe

“The self-esteem of psychiatry got very low as a result of it. It had never really been accepted as part of medicine because the…

— Jon Ronson

Psychoanalytic categories such as "neurosis", "psychosis", "mania", and "fixation" have become part of our everyday psychological vocabulary and we now routinely interpret states of…

— Ray Brassier

Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a given moment…

— Siri Hustvedt

In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives and frequently does.

— Peter Breggin

Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“Neurology and psychology, curiously, though they talk of everything else, almost never talk of ‘judgment’—”

— Oliver Sacks

When people dont know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.

— Marion Cotillard