Certainty Quote by Thomas Szasz Download Open image “The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.” — Thomas Szasz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Certainty Doubt Doubt and certainty Neurosis Neurotic Problem Psychosis Psychotic Solutions
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 Copy Share Image
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Do you know the difference between neurotics and psychotics?” “Neurotics build castles in the sky; psychotics move into them.” — Tanya Thompson Copy Share Image
Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
There are certain societal laws that are just accepted, things that are arbitrary. I think the fun thing about psychotics is that they question… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
Schizophrenia and excitement within us comes when / if the patient has a personality. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“People with mental illness are very much like people without mental illness only more so. What we lose with a psychotic episode is the… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
For Jews, the Messiah has never come; for Christians, He has come but once; for modern man, He appears and disappears with increasing rapidity.… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I believe the time has come to acknowledge that the practice of routine circumcision rests on the absurd premise that the only mammal in… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
Every single person who is a member of our party deserves to have certainty. They deserve to know that my attention and focus is… — Annamie Paul Copy Share Image
The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they… — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Do not lose hope; St. Joseph also experienced moments of difficulty, but he never lost faith and was able to overcome them, in the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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