Despair Quote by Robert Charles Wilson

“It is the sad privilege of medicine, and especially that of psychiatry, to ever witness the weaknesses of human nature and the reverse side…

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing

“The self-esteem of psychiatry got very low as a result of it. It had never really been accepted as part of medicine because the…

— Jon Ronson

“I saw the patterns of history and thought that a human might be eighty per cent chemicals, eighteen per cent his past, and two…

— Gerard Donovan

“The dislike of her was general. I wonder now about the treatment of psychiatric and other patients who release, as if it were a…

— Janet Frame

“Yet, I believe that my experience of depression has helped me to be a more humane and understanding therapist. Psychiatrists get depressed too, more…

— Linda Gask

“. I was often surprised by the dispassionate way patients’ symptoms were discussed and by how much time was spent on trying to manage…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“Thinking made her throat ache. That was a good reason not to think about seeing a psychiatrist.”

— Arundhati Roy

“I mention a paradox of psychiatry: mental illness is recognized by the patient's distorted thoughts, but treatment is largely indifferent to their content. (104)”

— Michael Greenberg

“Prior to being medicated, a depressed person has no known chemical imbalance.”

— Robert Whitaker

“A long time ago I realized that, as psychiatrists, we had to have a healthy respect for our own humanness, and our own smallness…

— Lori Schiller

“I hated the idea of therapy with a passion. I hated the idea of being medicated even more”

— Bry Ann

“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