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

Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it

Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, thus confronting them with the possibility of insignificance.

How can depression be real if our eyes arent real?

People dream of making the virtuous powerful, so they can depend upon them. Since they cannot do that, people choose to make the powerful virtuous, glorifying in becoming victimized by them.

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.

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