Certain Quote by Antonin Artaud

“This is why a tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would…

— Antonin Artaud

The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers…

— Martin Gardner

“There is no talking rationally, using logic or facts, with someone under the spell of the psychic epidemic, as their ability to reason and…

— Paul Levy

Doubtis an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

— Gustave Flaubert

Psychiatry is a dirty mirror.

— Anne Sexton

“Under the guise of helping the sick, oppressed and hopeless, psychiatry is paving the way for authoritarian governments to suppress a whole society furthermore,…

— Robin Sacredfire

We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of…

— Thomas Szasz

Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normalbranch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who…

— Frances Wriht

It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a…

— Sarah Josepha Hale

“If our research leads us to a result that reduces religion to the status of a neurosis of mankind and explains it's grandiose powers…

— Anonymous

“Fracturing of the psyche is said to be conducive to creating the phenomenon that has been termed sleeper assassins. According to such theories, the…

— Lance Morcan

My philosophy is really based on humility. I don't think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is…

— Thomas R. Insel