Countless Quote by Siri Hustvedt

“The DSM-IV-TR is a 943-page textbook published by the American Psychiatric Association that sells for $99...There are currently 374 mental disorders. I bought the…

— Jon Ronson

DSM-IV is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by medicine in general. Insiders know it is more a political than scientific document… DSM-IV…

— Loren Mosher

“While we respect whatever treatment decisions people make, we do not define ourselves as essentially diseased, disordered, broken, faulty, and existing within the bounds…

— Seth Farber

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

The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice.

— Mariel Hemingway

Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling…

— Allen Frances

“What has typically happened over the past two hundred years is the slow emergence of a concept as a gradual, evolutionary exercise in collective…

— Edward Shorter

Mental illness doesn't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like…

— Steve Lopez

Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness, our go-to…

— Chris Wood

Most people have been touched by the battles of mental illness in some way or another. It's either going on in their families or…

— Tom Kitt

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is…

— Naomi Judd

“Studies of the DSM-II found that when two psychiatrists consulted the same patient, they gave the same DSM diagnosis only between 32 and 42…

— Scott Stossel