Mental Illness

Famous quotes containing the words mental illness, mental and/or illness:

“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.”
—Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)

“‘Don’t be afraid of me because I’m just coming back home from
the mental hospital—I’m your mother—’”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)

“All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)