Facts Quote by Robert M. Pirsig

The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a…

— Tom Stoppard

“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

Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital…

— Thomas R. Insel

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

Ex-cons always say, "You never know what makes the wheels go round until you've done time in the joint." This is even more true…

— Kenneth Rexroth

Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve…

— Thomas Szasz

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

— Robert W. Welch, Jr

“In exchange for institutionalization, people with mental illness today have been provided with splendid autonomy. But this particular bland of autonomy comes with a…

— Clem Martini

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more…

— Glenn Close

Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental…

— Nan Goldin

“The majority of patients I see admitted for inpatient psychiatric care are there in part because they've cared too much. They've given more than…

— Helen Backhouse

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

— John Darnielle