Am Quote by M. Scott Peck

For too long, we've assumed that there is a single template for human nature, which is why we diagnose most deviations as disorders. But…

— Jonah Lehrer

“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 that we're making a mistake if we don't see that there is a cultural basis to many illnesses, not just psychiatric ones.…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

“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

It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots, which were…

— Martin Seligman

We live in a culture that is much happier talking about organic brain disease than about psychic illness because the former suggests that something…

— Siri Hustvedt

People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspondence for every disease.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.

— Bertrand Russell

It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated. But this says nothing about their causation.

— Mark Fisher

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.

— Ovid

If we knew more about psychology, we would be better equipped to deal with other people's psychological damage which they might project onto us.

— Sophie Hannah

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

— George Bernard Shaw