The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. ... We see how the retarded, unable to perform fairly simple tasks involving perhaps four or five movements or procedures in sequence, can do these perfectly if they work to music.

The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'.

First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience.

We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.

Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them.