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“A long time ago I realized that, as psychiatrists, we had to have a healthy respect for our own humanness, and our own smallness…

— Lori Schiller

“It is the sad privilege of medicine, and especially that of psychiatry, to ever witness the weaknesses of human nature and the reverse side…

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing

“I mention a paradox of psychiatry: mental illness is recognized by the patient's distorted thoughts, but treatment is largely indifferent to their content. (104)”

— Michael Greenberg

“Yet, I believe that my experience of depression has helped me to be a more humane and understanding therapist. Psychiatrists get depressed too, more…

— Linda Gask

“Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of it. The…

— Robert Charles Wilson

“But psychiatry’s appeal is not just about the possibility of cure, which is why the profession continues to flourish even when it cures nothing…

— Gary Greenberg

“The history of psychiatry and its treatments can be a contentious issue in our society, so much so that when you write about it,…

— Robert Whitaker

Everybody believes in psychiatry it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but…

— Kate Millett

“At this point in history, in my view, psychiatry has been almost completely bought out by the drug companies. . . . Psychiatrists have…

— Seth Farber

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

Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well,…

— Chris Cleave

“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