After generations of living under medical tutelage, which provides us with protection (albeit illusory) against "dangerous drugs", we have failed to cultivate the self-reliance and self-discipline we must possess as competent adults surrounded by the fruits of our pharmacological-technological age.

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

In the 60s people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal. In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.

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

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

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