1966 Quote by Thomas Scheff

“complicated human behavior was increasingly getting labeled a mental disorder.”

— Jon Ronson

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

— Jane Hersey

“I remembered those psychologists who said psychopaths made the world go around. They meant it: society was, they claimed, an expression of that particular…

— Jon Ronson

“A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“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

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under…

— Gene Tierney

“The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as an effort…

— Carl Elliott

“People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.”

— Shannon L. Alder

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

“It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated, but this says nothing about their causation. If it is true, for instance,…

— Mark Fisher

“Mental illnesses are so strange. A physical problem we can understand. But when the mind works irrationally, well, by its very definition, the rational…

— Harlan Coben

“What if the theories in psychology that dominate our mainstream culture are flawed, rather than the people they diagnose? That we close our eyes…

— Dr. Kristen Lee