1930s Quote by Rennie Airth

The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the…

— Carl Jung

The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite…

— Sigmund Freud

“We have been focusing on the role that psychiatry and its medications may be playing in this epidemic, and the evidence is quite clear.…

— Robert Whitaker

They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of…

— Hans Eysenck

Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.

— Alice Weaver Flaherty

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

“The brain-disease model takes control over people’s fate out of their own hands and puts doctors and insurance companies in charge of fixing their…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

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

— Masatoshi Shibayama

“For too long a time--for half a century, in fact--psychiatry tried to interpret the human mind merely as a mechanism, and consequently the therapy…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be…

— Thomas Szasz

We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an…

— Carl Jung

Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normalbranch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who…

— Frances Wriht