Ask Quote by Thomas R. Insel

At the individual level, if we can identify the psychological mechanisms linking adverse environments to psychosis (and there has been a lot of progress…

— Richard Bentall

My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your…

— Elyn Saks

“The off-drug patients also suffered less from depression, blunted emotions, and retarded movements. Indeed, they told Carpenter and McGlashan that they had found it…

— Robert Whitaker

“psychopaths are resistant to treatment regimens; in fact, they often become more dangerous after treatment as they learn how to manipulate the system. Studies…

— Steven Briggs

[Psychiatric] drugs have so many side effects because using them to treat a complex psychiatric disorder is a bit like trying to change your…

— Suman Rai

Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.

— Terence McKenna

If we are to believe the evidence from clinical trials there are many effective pharmacological and psychological treatments for mental illness. Epidemiological data, on…

— Richard Bentall

“Psychosis can happen out of the blue, to anyone, and no one knows why. Not even the best doctors on the planet. And that’s…

— Jeannine Garsee

“If Sally had been in an accident or come down with some overtly physical disease, I would not hesitate to tell him about it,…

— Michael Greenberg

There is also evidence from epidemiological studies that psychotic-like experiences are much more common than has hitherto been thought (with about 10% of the…

— Richard Bentall

I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason…

— R. D. Laing

“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