Cold Quote by R. D. Laing

Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.

— R. D. Laing

Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.

— Elyn Saks

Schizophrenia and excitement within us comes when / if the patient has a personality.

— Mak_786

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

— R. D. Laing

There are not schizophrenics. There are people with schizophrenia and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be…

— Elyn Saks

The problem is that you have a disease, but the disease is abnormal integrity, loyalty to a view of the world that the schizophrenic…

— Anonymous

“Many DID patients have been misdiagnosed as schizophrenics and treated with neuroleptics.”

— Masatoshi Shibayama

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The…

— Erich Fromm

We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.

— Brian Lindstrom

“Few family members act on warning signs when they first present themselves in a schizophrenic patient. It is often quite hard to realize, in…

— Holly Schindler

Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of…

— Eric McCormack

“Once labeled schizophrenic the pseudopatient was stuck with that label. —DAVID ROSENHAN,”

— Jon Ronson