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Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

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Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation from others, and thus affords them the possibility of dignity. They loathe libe...more

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If we regard the state as the father, and the citizens as children, there are three alternatives. First, the father may be bad and despotic:this, most...more

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Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal pro...more

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Our legal system does not grant adults a right to liberty, because they already possess that right; it only revokes the right to liberty (for certain ...more

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The ethics of psychiatric therapy is the very negation of the ethics of political liberty. The former embraces absolute power, provided it is used to ...more

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The medical profession's classic prescription for coping with such predicaments, Primum non nocere (First, do no harm), sounds better than it is. In f...more

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Malcolm X and Edmund Burke shared an appreciation of this important insight, this painful truth--that the state wants men to be weak and timid, not st...more

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It is mainly by resisting authority that the individual defines himself. This is why authorities--whether parental, priestly, political, or psychiatri...more

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The term 'deinstitutionalization' conceals some simple truths, namely, that old, unwanted persons, formerly housed in state hospitals, are now housed ...more

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We cannot institutionalize helping the "victims" of personal disasters.

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The pressure to reduce health care costs is aimed only at the treatment of real diseases. There is no pressure to reduce the costs of treating fictiti...more

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The young and the old are defenseless against relatives who want to get rid of them by casting them in the role of mental patient,and against psychiat...more

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Modern Western democracies no longer engage in such despotic assaults on freedom, Instead, they deprive people of liberty indirectly, by relieving the...more

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The fatal weakness of most psychiatric historiographies lies in the historians' failure to give sufficient weight to the role of coercion in psychiatr...more