Acceptance Quote by Loren Mosher

“While we respect whatever treatment decisions people make, we do not define ourselves as essentially diseased, disordered, broken, faulty, and existing within the bounds…

— Seth Farber

Every time the DSM prepares for a new edition, there are countless groups lobbying to get their particular mental illness recognized by the diagnostic…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Studies of the DSM-II found that when two psychiatrists consulted the same patient, they gave the same DSM diagnosis only between 32 and 42…

— Scott Stossel

“The DSM-IV-TR is a 943-page textbook published by the American Psychiatric Association that sells for $99...There are currently 374 mental disorders. I bought the…

— Jon Ronson

“In April 2013, a few weeks before DSM-V was formally released, NIMH director Thomas Insel announced that his agency could no longer support DSM’s…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“20 years, we have experienced three unanticipated fads partly precipitated by DSM-IV: a 20-fold increase in Autism Spectrum Disorder,7 a tripling of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder…

— Allen Frances

“What has typically happened over the past two hundred years is the slow emergence of a concept as a gradual, evolutionary exercise in collective…

— Edward Shorter

“Under the guise of helping the sick, oppressed and hopeless, psychiatry is paving the way for authoritarian governments to suppress a whole society furthermore,…

— Robin Sacredfire

I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it…

— Thomas Szasz

I think that's a major reason. Instead of turning in their own lives to philosophy, religion, love, family life, or nature, they think of…

— Peter Breggin