Mental disorder Quote by Jon Ronson

“I wonder if I’ve got any of the 374 mental disorders,” I thought. I opened the manual again. And I instantly diagnosed myself with…

— Jon Ronson

“Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders;”

— Michael Finkel

Every time the DSM prepares for a new edition, there are countless groups lobbying to get their particular mental illness recognized by the diagnostic…

— Siri Hustvedt

“While we respect whatever treatment decisions people make, we do not define ourselves as essentially diseased, disordered, broken, faulty, and existing within the bounds…

— Seth Farber

DSM-IV is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by medicine in general. Insiders know it is more a political than scientific document… DSM-IV…

— Loren Mosher

“Studies of the DSM-II found that when two psychiatrists consulted the same patient, they gave the same DSM diagnosis only between 32 and 42…

— Scott Stossel

“The implication that the change in nomenclature from “Multiple Personality Disorder” to “Dissociative Identity Disorder” means the condition has been repudiated and “dropped” from…

— Richard P. Kluft

“This book is also not intended to be a substitute or replacement for competent medical or psychological treatment when these may be needed. If…

— Anonymous

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

— Darrell Hammond

“In April 2013, a few weeks before DSM-V was formally released, NIMH director Thomas Insel announced that his agency could no longer support DSM’s…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“As its lists of diagnoses and ‘diseases’ proliferate, the frantic efforts to distinguish ever-larger numbers of types and sub-types of mental disorder come to…

— Andrew Scull

“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