Birth Quote by Thomas Szasz

“The history of psychiatry and its treatments can be a contentious issue in our society, so much so that when you write about it,…

— Robert Whitaker

I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now…

— Gore Vidal

I think that's a major reason. Instead of turning in their own lives to philosophy, religion, love, family life, or nature, they think of…

— Peter Breggin

“Under the guise of helping the sick, oppressed and hopeless, psychiatry is paving the way for authoritarian governments to suppress a whole society furthermore,…

— Robin Sacredfire

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

“For too long a time--for half a century, in fact--psychiatry tried to interpret the human mind merely as a mechanism, and consequently the therapy…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“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

My philosophy is really based on humility. I don't think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is…

— Thomas R. Insel

Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normalbranch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who…

— Frances Wriht

“At this point in history, in my view, psychiatry has been almost completely bought out by the drug companies. . . . Psychiatrists have…

— Seth Farber

“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

“Notice that I am treating psychotherapy as a cultural artifact that can be interpreted, rather than as a universal healing technology that has already…

— Philip Cushman