As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of madness arose and becam….

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..

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

The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens..

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years..

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

The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself..

Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe liberty….

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

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 ….

Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform in….

Only idiots and infants need things. The language of needs is the native tongue of socialists, therapists, and paternalists of all sorts and is addre….

Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his….

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

Mysticism joins and unites; reason divides and separates. People crave belonging more than understanding. Hence the prominent role of mysticism, and ….

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus stead….

The less a person knows about the workings of the social institutions in his society, the more he must trust those who wield power in it; and the mor….

Prostitution is said to be the world's oldest profession. It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control over himse….

We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

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

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence..