Quotes of: Schizophrenia Keyword

Schizophrenia is just a catch-all term for forms of mental behaviour that we don’t understand. In the nineteenth century there was a term, melancholia, which we would now call bipolar depression… but all forms of sadness, unhappiness, maladaptati...

Terence McKenna

Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic “cause...

The Second Sin

In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.

The Split Mind: Schizophrenia from an Insider's Point of View

The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the drug of schizophrenia down, and I want to put down the stigma surrounding its label.

Second Alibi: The Banality of Life

Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.

Maria Bamford

Schizophrenia demons live in my head.

Wesley Willis

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

Marshall McLuhan

Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

Elyn Saks

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

E. L. Doctorow

Despite the growing clinical and research interest in dissociative symptoms and disorders, it is also true that the substantial prevalence rates for dissociative disorders are still disproportional to the number of studies addressing these conditions...

Oxford Textbook of Psychopathology

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

R. D. Laing

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

Darrell Hammond

Bring something incomprehensible into the world!

Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

R. D. Laing

In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.

Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Thomas Szasz

Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.

Emilie Autumn

I'd like to create a lovable character for schizophrenia; it doesn't have a celebrity spokesperson because by the time somebody's schizophrenic they've lost all their teeth.

Maria Bamford

After a century of studying schizophrenia, the cause of the disorder remains unknown.

Thomas R. Insel

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

Alexis Korner