Aberration Quote by Lawrence Wright

“Shorter believes that psychosomatic illnesses (such as leg paralysis at the turn of the twentieth century or multiple personality disorder at the turn of…

— Ethan Watters

“Patients coming for consultation complain about headaches, sexual disturbances, inhibitions in work, or other symptoms; as a rule, they do not complain about having…

— Karen Horney

“People who do not examine themselves are like people with a sickness that closes off their capillaries and therefore corrupts their blood, causing their…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn very deeply…

— James Hillman

“Highly traumatized and chronically neglected or abused individuals are dominated by the immobilization/shutdown system. On the other hand, acutely traumatized people (often by a…

— Peter A. Levine

“The act of consciously and purposefully paying attention to symptoms and their antecedents and consequences makes the symptoms more an objective target for thoughtful…

— Christine A. Courtois

First we have to understand what doubts and fears are, how anxiety and doubts and fears come about. They are a psychic disease.

— John Assaraf

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.

— Ovid

These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and…

— Sigmund Freud

“Since the 1980s, therapists have reported encountering clients or patients who had experienced extreme abuses featuring physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, and cognitive aspects, along…

— Alison Miller

This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.

— David Foster Wallace

“At what point does querying diagnostic criteria tip over into mocking the unusual symptoms of people in very real distress?”

— Jon Ronson