Abolish Quote by Thomas Szasz

“In exchange for institutionalization, people with mental illness today have been provided with splendid autonomy. But this particular bland of autonomy comes with a…

— Clem Martini

People say mental hospitals are for the patients, in fact they are to protect society from them. They are justified in doing that. Society…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“Further, I agree that in a mental hospital, even with its electric shocks—sorry, ECT, as you prefer to call it—rigid timetables, and occasional hysterical…

— Paulo Coelho

Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital…

— Thomas R. Insel

At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact…

— John D. MacDonald

The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that it doesn't…

— Frederick Lenz

“The process of reforming the mental health system never includes the complaints that families and caregivers have regarding a need for increased access to…

— Tamara Hill, MS

Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.

— Pete Earley

Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to…

— Paulo Coelho

Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.

— Eric Hoffer

“Just the existence of a single mentally challenged or mentally ill person should make us change any of our theories about the necessity of…

— Richard Rohr

“Be dedicated to change the way in which people see mental illness, at all levels of society. If not for yourself, advocate for those…

— Germany Kent