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79 Psychiatric quotes by 62 unique authors

Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment,… — Thomas Szasz
Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is true. There are… — Peter Breggin
Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of psychologists, both in… — Cyril Burt
The similarities between street drug abuse and psychotropic prescription drug use are disturbing. Both types are toxic. Both can cause psychosis, damage the brain and… — Unknown Author
Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a… — Patricia Schroeder
The Maze is a painting of the inside of my skull, which I painted when I was in England as a patient in Maudsley and… — William Kurelek
Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment. — Thomas Szasz
Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent...and remarkably popular products and… — Thomas Szasz
The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly… — Thomas Szasz
Exorcists always need to distinguish demonic possessions from mental or psychiatric disorders, and they use three symptoms to identify people as possessed. First, those people… — Gerard Verschuuren
Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an… — Malcolm X
Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: 'Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to live for! I… — William Duncan Silkworth
I was in danger of having my children taken away from me when I needed five weeks in psychiatric care ... There is the smiling… — Trisha Goddard
The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the… — Ian Mcewan
The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how he himself can… — Harry Stack Sullivan
Foods of the Gods”) - “After water, cocoa is the single healthiest substance you can put in your mouth. It can easily replace a number… — Chris Kilham
Viktor Frankl's timeless formula for survival. One of the classic psychiatric texts of our time, Man's Search for Meaning is a meditation on the irreducible… — Patricia J. Williams
I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in… — Alberto Manguel
When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the… — Robert Jay Lifton
Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. — Ken Livingstone
We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity,… — Chester Brown
A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric… — R. D. Laing
Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because… — Karl A. Menninger
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. — Alfred Korzybski
I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was… — Anne Lamott

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