Famous quotes containing the words mental illness, mental and/or illness:
“The entire construct of the medical model of mental illnessMwhat is it but an analogy? Between physical medicine and psychiatry: the mind is said to be subject to disease in the same manner as the body. But whereas in physical medicine there are verifiable physiological proofsin damaged or affected tissue, bacteria, inflammation, cellular irregularityin mental illness alleged socially unacceptable behavior is taken as a symptom, even as proof, of pathology.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)
“You dont want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill out of them. It is all purely secondaryand more decadent than the most hide-bound intellectualism.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“The fact that illness is associated with the poorwho are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in ones midstreinforces the association of illness with the foreign: with an exotic, often primitive place.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)