Quote by Eric Kandel

“The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as an effort…

— Carl Elliott

“If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating mental illness…

— Edward Shorter

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated,…

— Thomas Szasz

“Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.”

— Thomas Scheff

“Progressing mental and physical illnesses were a feature of my Summit Brain.”

— Steven Magee

“We have been focusing on the role that psychiatry and its medications may be playing in this epidemic, and the evidence is quite clear.…

— Robert Whitaker

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under…

— Gene Tierney

Some view mental illness as a purely spiritual issue and deny the need for medication or other forms of treatment. Others view it as…

— Sheila Walsh

“It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated, but this says nothing about their causation. If it is true, for instance,…

— Mark Fisher

Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that…

— Camille Paglia

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort…

— Thomas Szasz

“Mental illnesses are so strange. A physical problem we can understand. But when the mind works irrationally, well, by its very definition, the rational…

— Harlan Coben