“When we know very little about a particular condition, then to label a person with a stigmatizing diagnosis just to make sense of his/her condition; is like branding an animal with red hot iron ,so that we can label it, identify it, segregate it, control it and use it.”
Dr Hitesh C Sheth
“The problem with psychiatry is, it doesn't know what the problem is.”
“If the reality as said by the Albert Einstein is a persistent illusion, then to diagnose the psychiatric illnesses on a sole base of such reality testing may yield result, which may be far from the truth.”
“When a misfit lion started to take care of a fawn, he was segregated and was force fed antipsychotics by a society of lions, to cure his socially unacceptable behavior.”
“This thing called psychiatry -- it is a European-American invention, and it largely has no respect for nonwhite philosophies of mental health and how people function.”
Carl Bell
“Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.”
Henry Kissinger
