We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.

The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that which makes a person an individual: communism against the ownership of property, psychiatry against the ownership of the self (mind and body). Communists criminalize the autonomous use of capital and labor, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in the black market, especially in foreign currencies. Psychiatrists criminalize the autonomous use of the self, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in self-abuse, especially in self-medication and self-destruction.