Bipolar Quote by Richard Bentall

There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental…

— Allen Frances

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

— R. D. Laing

Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.

— Allen Frances

Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a given moment…

— Siri Hustvedt

The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere…

— Eric Kandel

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated,…

— Thomas Szasz

“I did my graduate research paper on the biochemistry of schizophrenia . Intellectually , I believe that most serious mental illness has a biological…

— Talitha Day Fair

In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives and frequently does.

— Peter Breggin

“Let me stop here and correct a very common misconception: personality disorders are not the same classification of mental health disorders, such as Bipolar…

— Shannon Thomas

“A world without prejudice, stigma, and discrimination against those who have or are thought to have mental illness would be a better one for…

— Mark Vonnegut

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort…

— Thomas Szasz

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

— Darrell Hammond