Another Quote by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.

— Alice Weaver Flaherty

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain

— Clifford Geertz

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

“Psychiatric diagnoses are getting closer and closer to the boundary of normal,” said Allen Frances.”

— Jon Ronson

“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

“Generally speaking, psychiatry is concerned with the treatment of neuroses, with patients who are aware of their illness and wish to be cured. Dr.…

— Rennie Airth

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

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

Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the…

— Irvin D. Yalom

I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.

— Marti Noxon

I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.

— Kirstie Alley

Mental illness is a real thing. It has real material consequences for people who suffer from it and at the time even the most…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl