Mental illness Quote by Talitha Day Fair

“Schizophrenia is without a doubt the most dreaded psychological disorder. If depression is the common cold of psychological disorders, schizophrenia is the cancer.” The…

— Heather Sellers

The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere…

— Eric Kandel

Schizophrenia and excitement within us comes when / if the patient has a personality.

— Mak_786

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

— R. D. Laing

“In a world full of oddities, it’s how you outdo yourself within your own schizophrenia of abnormalities, that determines your most interesting self.”

— Julieanne O'Connor

Conventional psychiatry has emphasized the genetic roots of psychosis based on the claim that twin and other studies show that schizophrenia is 80% heritable,…

— Richard Bentall

“Schizophrenia is when the total personalities of your past lives or the memories of invading Spirits enter your body.”

— Raymond Holder

“Too much possibility is the attempt by the person to overvalue the powers of the symbolic self. It reflects the attempt to exaggerate one…

— Ernest Becker

“If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating mental illness…

— Edward Shorter

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated,…

— Thomas Szasz

If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the…

— Anonymous

“The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. The chemico-biologization of mental illness is of course strictly commensurate…

— Mark Fisher