"Christ, all you psychiatrists think about is sex — sex, sex, sex, sex, sex ..."

"All schizophrenia patients are mad, and none are sane. Their behaviour is incomprehensible. It tells us nothing about…"

"Psychiatry is becoming too popular. Everybody talks of complexes and neuroses and psychoses and compulsions and whatn…"

"Not only psychiatry itself but also the values reflected in its statistical definition of “normalcy” serve to conditi…"

"The self must be a tense bow. It must struggle with opposites rather than harmonize them, rather than turn the tensio…"

"I can't stand feeble, robotic psychiatrists. They give you false drugs and turn you into a zombie."

"“Drapetomania”—that is the name of the mental disorder that was contrived by Samuel Cartwright, who said that Blacks …"

"Most people with mental disorders in China never receive treatment. There is often a stigma attached to such ailments…"

"You know, if you get treated like a patient, you're apt to act like one."

"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."