Approach Quote by Peter Kinderman

“Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.”

— Thomas Scheff

In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the Medical Empire.…

— Ben Goldacre

“Adding social structural analysis to medical and public health education would move toward a more realistic and balanced version of the biopsychosocial model already…

— Seth Holmes

I make my patients feel like they're still part of life, part of some grand nutty scheme instead of alone with their diseases. With…

— Samuel Shem

“But profound as psychology is, it's a knife that cuts both ways (...). I have purposely resorted to this method, gentlemen of the jury,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Common human experience alone is no guarantee with which we can build a science of psychology.”

— Wolfgang Köhler

“The first time the extent of this problem was obvious to me was when I was hanging out with a small group of people…

— Simone Collins

“One criticism of Freud still sometimes heard on the political Left is that his thinking is individualist — that he substitutes ‘private’ psychological causes…

— Terry Eagleton

“There are, in fact, no more important communications between one human being and another than those expressed emotionally, and no information more vital for…

— Edward Teyber

Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research equipment than…

— Lloyd deMause

“The mind-body clash has disguised the truth that psychotherapy is physiology. When a person starts therapy, he isn't beginning a pale conversation; he is…

— Thomas Lewis

I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From…

— Jean Piaget