Bases Quote by Eric Kandel

“I did my graduate research paper on the biochemistry of schizophrenia . Intellectually , I believe that most serious mental illness has a biological…

— Talitha Day Fair

“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

The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences…

— James D. Watson

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

I think that we're making a mistake if we don't see that there is a cultural basis to many illnesses, not just psychiatric ones.…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness, our go-to…

— Chris Wood

“Indeed, the underlying precept of the new science of mind is that all mental processes are biological—they all depend on organic molecules and cellular…

— Eric Kandel

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

For too long, we've assumed that there is a single template for human nature, which is why we diagnose most deviations as disorders. But…

— Jonah Lehrer

As far as I am concerned, virtually all psychological diseases have their origin in our conscious minds. And that is not what we are…

— M. Scott Peck

Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling…

— Allen Frances

Everyone has some sort of connection to mental illness.

— Alice Ripley