Bad behavior Quote by Thomas Szasz

“The ancient Greeks considered love a mental illness that led to suicide, homicide, betrayal, war, all sorts of fun.”

— Marion G. Harmon

“The Greeks would, as it were, devote festivals to all their passions and evil natural inclinations… they took these human, all too human aspects…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's caste of…

— Kenny Smith

“Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.”

— Thomas Scheff

“It was to Greece that the Romans first owed their knowledge of healing, and of art and science generally, but at no time did…

— James Elliott

I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.

— Linda Hamilton

The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of…

— Edith Hamilton

“Homeric Greece and everything that philosophy after Plato stood for was, however superficially cordial and continuous, in fact deeply antagonistic, if often at the…

— Walter J. Ong

I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it…

— Thomas Szasz

“When I was first aware that I had been laid low by the disease, I felt a need, among other things, to register a…

— William Styron

“Controversy has always existed among psychiatrists and psychologists about the validity of personality diagnosis. Some believe in the merits of the enterprise and devote…

— Irvin D. Yalom