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)

“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
—Constitution of the World Health Organization.

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