Cures Quote by R. D. Laing

Psychiatry causes so much death

— Kate Millett

it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not…

— Phyllis Bottome

Mental illness is a real thing. It has real material consequences for people who suffer from it and at the time even the most…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

“The anti-psychiatrists held various, sometimes conflicting views but one particular line of reasoning is attributable to all of them—they all pitched their arguments against…

— Zbigniew Kotowicz

The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.

— Martin Seligman

“Sick ones cannot teach you to be well. Psychiatrists have a high suicide rate. Why do you think they can help you live happily,…

— Seth

I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.

— Kirstie Alley

“But psychiatry’s appeal is not just about the possibility of cure, which is why the profession continues to flourish even when it cures nothing…

— Gary Greenberg

“doctors, for years, had opted for a treatment that systematically killed patients”

— Michael Lewis

“The physician and the philosopher have different ways of defining the diseases of the soul. For instance anger for the philosopher is a sentiment…

— Aristotle

The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling,…

— Maxim Gorky

Psychiatrists are usually very well imbued with the clinical role, where helping the sick person is the goal. And that's quite incompatible with the…

— Park Dietz