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Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse.


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



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Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.



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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.



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In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.



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Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.



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In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.



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What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing



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Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.



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The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.





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