There was a mental institution near my house, and I would donate time teaching mentally ill patients how to do ceramics. I photographed them as well. So those were my first pictures.
I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear to me after a while that mental processes come from the brain, and in order to understand them, you need to be a biologis...
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
You can train your mental strength just like you train your body. If your body looks fit or ripped, it looks strong, and you can flex your muscles. So, physically, you have a certain strength. Mentally, it's the same thing. You can train your psychol...
People accuse me of glamorizing mental illness. Looking back sometimes, that's true. But I don't feel guilty.
Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health - and create profitable diseases and dependences - by failing to see the direct connections between l...
One of the biggest mistakes that a lot of people make, is that they are in the habit of working out only when they feel out of shape or when the weather is about to warm up. But when they succeed in getting back in shape, they would stop exercising o...
America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it.
Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist.
We need to increase access to health insurance through Health Savings Accounts and high deductible policies, so individuals and families can purchase the insurance that's best for them and meets their specific needs.
The typical family of four with employer-based health insurance is not the same as the typical family of four. It's better-off.
Government did get into the health care business in a big way in 1965 with Medicare, and later with Medicaid, and government already distorts the marketplace.
Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.
What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed.
People have been talking about competition among insurers, and what they really need to be talking about is competition in the delivery of health care as well.
If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
Congress mandated that health care providers in emergency departments and ambulances provide emergency care to anyone in need, including the uninsured and underinsured.
People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.
Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.
