135 Quotes by Susannah Cahalan

Two psychiatrists on the same side of the Atlantic, studies showed, agreed on diagnosis less than 50 percent of the time – worse than blackjack odds.

Instead, Rosenhan did what so many doctors do to their patients in the face of complexity – he discarded any evidence that didn’t support his conclusion. And we’re all worse off because of it. The.

Accepted dogma often goes through reappraisals.

How many people throughout history suffered from my disease and others like it but went untreated? This question is made more pressing by the knowledge that even though the disease was discovered in 2007, some doctors I spoke to believe that it’s been around at least as long as humanity has.

Dr. Balice-Gordon believes that a percentage, albeit a small one, of those diagnosed with autism and schizophrenia might in fact have an autoimmune disease.

Words were originally magic, and the word retains much of its old magical powers even today,” Freud wrote in 1920. “Therefore let us not underestimate the use of words in psychotherapy.

Thomas Moore said: “It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.

And then, in February 1969, “David Lurie” walked into the intake room at an unspecified hospital in Pennsylvania and set off a metaphorical bomb. He finally proved what so many people had long suspected: Psychiatry had too much power and didn’t know what the hell to do with it.

Perhaps hospitals cure, but psychiatric hospitals don’t. They brutalize, torture: they are outside the pale; they make the sick sicker, and even the sturdiest, sick.” They make the sick sicker.