Character Quote by Kate Millett

“The anti-psychiatrists held various, sometimes conflicting views but one particular line of reasoning is attributable to all of them—they all pitched their arguments against…

— Zbigniew Kotowicz

“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

it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not…

— Phyllis Bottome

From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The…

— R. D. Laing

“For too long a time--for half a century, in fact--psychiatry tried to interpret the human mind merely as a mechanism, and consequently the therapy…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of…

— R. D. Laing

“In psychology it is very important that the doctor should not strive to heal at all costs. One has to be exceedingly careful not…

— C.G. Jung

Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient.

— Jerome Frank

“If Sally had been in an accident or come down with some overtly physical disease, I would not hesitate to tell him about it,…

— Michael Greenberg

Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.

— H. L. Mencken

“Therapy entails the application of conceptual machinery to ensure that actual or potential deviants stay within the institutionalized definitions of reality, or, in other…

— Peter L. Berger

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