In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients. Votes: 4
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility. Votes: 4
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient. Votes: 4
Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees. Votes: 3
Education these days is making youths suffer like mental patients, but no one has anything to say about it because there is no other option to be given. Votes: 3
For decades now, [Fuller] Torrey has been warning America what would happen if the dangerously mentally ill were deinstitutionalized, and it's all come true. Today, the only place we can put mental patients is on MSNBC. Votes: 3
I always wanted to play a mental patient. I was fascinated with playing crazy people in college, and I don't know if I ever quite perfected it. Votes: 2
When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult. Votes: 2
Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options. Votes: 2
There was a mental institution near my house, and I would donate time teaching mentally ill patients how to do ceramics. I photographed them as well. So those were my first pictures. Votes: 2
If I ideally can, I'd do a comedy, and then I would do something where I'm a mental patient, and then I'd go back and do a comedy so I can continue to express myself in different ways. Votes: 2
Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less. Votes: 2
These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow. Votes: 2
Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might better be known by their symptoms and the individualized sufferings of patients than by assigned names. Votes: 2
I tell residents, if you gave me two patients with identical problems, and one of them had family at the bedside with a lot of laughter, plus photos and a quilt from home, and next door was another patient who was alone every time I came by - I'm going to be very nervous about the isolated patient's mental status. Votes: 2
I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients. Votes: 0
A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim. Votes: 0
Mental inertia is death. Votes: 3 Timothy Thomas Fortune
La pintura es cosa mental Votes: 3 Pablo R. Picasso
Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them. Votes: 4 Marcia Angell