Hand in hand Quote by Sarah Wise

“far from being weird, mental illness was absolutely normal. So”

— Bryony Gordon

“Apparently, I had graduated from psychologist and was now in need of a full-blown psychiatrist.”

— Christina Garner

“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

“He was about to find out that when you open a door with a psychiatrist’s name on it, you’d better be prepared to witness…

— Jim Carroll

I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now…

— Gore Vidal

“He accepted without question the notion that there is such a thing as 'normal,' that most people have attained it, and that it could…

— Philip Cushman

“name. It was truly a revolution in psychiatry, and a gold rush for drug companies, who suddenly had hundreds of new disorders they could…

— Jon Ronson

I think that one of the things that has happened is that psychiatry has become the religion of liberalism.

— Peter Breggin

“I can honestly say that my misery had been transformed into common unhappiness, so by Freud's definition I have achieved mental health.”

— Susanna Kaysen

“I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Mental illness didn’t really change people. It just made them more of who they were going to be anyway. Mental illness was less like…

— Heather Sellers

“I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.”

— Jane Hersey