We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.

Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent...and remarkably popular products and practices.

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 spirit.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

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

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.

Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.