Medicine Quote by Robert Whitaker

“Overcoming Chronic Mental Issues Like Depression”

— Alexis G. Roldan

“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

“Mental health, contemporary psychiatrists tell us, consists of the ability to adapt to the inevitable stresses and misfortunes of life. It does not mean…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“When mental [illness] increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept…

— George Sand

Insurance companies, government agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry all push for mental health care that is brief, intermittent, and focused on quick fixes, despite…

— Robert J. Waldinger

“Many mental health professionals are drawn to the field in part to resolve their own personal struggles.”

— Gary Small

“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

“That is where we stand as a nation today. Twenty years ago, our society began regularly prescribing psychiatric drugs to children and adolescents, and…

— Robert Whitaker

“The symptoms of madness can often be altered with medication, but there's no therapy for evil.”

— Jonathan Kellerman

“Having a mental illness is like a roller coaster ride. You don't jump off when it's still moving. You have to continue to ride…

— Stephanie Anne Allen

“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

“If you expand the boundaries of mental illness, which is clealry what has happened in this country during the past twenty-five years, and you…

— Robert Whitaker