Denial Quote by R.D. Laing

“Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.”

— Thomas Harris

“Sadly, psychiatric training still includes far too little on the very serious psychiatric sequelae of childhood trauma, especially CSA [child sexual abuse]. There is…

— Joan Coleman

“Although it is important to be able to recognise and disclose symptom of physical illnesses or injury, you need to be more careful about…

— Alison Miller

Conventional psychiatry has emphasized the genetic roots of psychosis based on the claim that twin and other studies show that schizophrenia is 80% heritable,…

— Richard Bentall

“In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.”

— Kevin Alan Lee

“Religious repression is the denial of the very essence of what it means to be human.”

— Timothy Shah

What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged…

— R. D. Laing

“Repression and denial set up elaborate games to pretend that negative thoughts and feelings are not occurring.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Setting aside the truth value of the UFO phenomenon, it is an interesting sociological reality that so many people are unwilling to discuss the…

— Richard Dolan

“The older we get, the more difficult it is to find other people who can give us the love our parents denied us. But…

— Alice Miller

“To defend ourselves from this threat, and to sustain our peace of mind, we make use of a variety of ego-defence mechanisms, particularly repression,…

— Anthony Stevens

Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I find it difficult enough as it is to keep some kind of normality in my life. I enjoy this experience, but I don't…

— George Michael

“It's the shock of the thing, is what I'm saying, and my new and somewhat untested theory is that when something is shocking it…

— Krystelle Bamford

"Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely…

— Susie Bright