Book Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with bizarre details…

— Dirk Wittenborn

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under…

— Gene Tierney

The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.

— Arthur Eddington

“Psychiatric illnesses were classified into two major groups—organic illnesses and functional illnesses—based on presumed differences in their origin. That classification, which dated to the…

— Eric Kandel

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

— Irving Stone

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

— Vironika Tugaleva

“Progressing mental and physical illnesses were a feature of my Summit Brain.”

— Steven Magee

“Psychiatrist David Shainberg argued that mental illness, which appears chaotic, is actually the reverse. Mental illness occurs when images of the self become rigid…

— John Briggs

“Now picture a volume of human / Reduced to planes and fluttering / Under my thumb like a flipbook / Showing the disease in action”

— Amit Majmudar

“The greatest handicap faced by the psychiatrist was, he argued, the inability to experience their patients' conditions; but hashish gave them a means to…

— Cameron Adams

“This was the age of the industrial revolution, science was becoming the new religion and it was therefore natural that large numbers of the…

— Neil Evans

“It's something of a sacrilege nowadays to speak of insanity as anything but the chemical brain disease that on one level it is. But…

— Michael Greenberg