Deviation Quote by Jonah Lehrer

“Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

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

“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

“Controversy has always existed among psychiatrists and psychologists about the validity of personality diagnosis. Some believe in the merits of the enterprise and devote…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“The distinction between diseases of "brain" and "mind," between "neurological" problems and "psychological" or "psychiatric" ones, is an unfortunate cultural inheritance that permeates society…

— António R. Damásio

I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.

— Marti Noxon

The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere…

— Eric Kandel

“What if the theories in psychology that dominate our mainstream culture are flawed, rather than the people they diagnose? That we close our eyes…

— Dr. Kristen Lee

“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

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

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“No conceptually regimented and normatively informed theory of mental disorder can be devised without taking philosophy of mind seriously and knowing something about this…

— George Graham