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“Exorcists always need to distinguish demonic possessions from mental or psychiatric disorders, and they use three symptoms to identify people as possessed. First, those people have the ability to see hidden sacred objects, which they always want removed. Second, they have an extraordinary physical strength. And third, they show an aversion to the sacred”

“Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention.”

Men Needs Shows America Black Race Attention Conditions Show Me Extremist North America Psychiatric Black Race

Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: 'Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to live for! I must stop, but I cannot! You must help me!'...One feels that something more than human power is needed to produce the essential psychic change. Though the aggregate of recoveries resulting from psychiatric effort is considerable, we physicians must admit we have made little impression upon the problem as a whole. Many types do not respond to the ordinary psychological approach.”

“I was in danger of having my children taken away from me when I needed five weeks in psychiatric care ... There is the smiling depressive which is the biggest time bomb and when they go they usually go with a bang, which was me.”

Children Care Taken Five Week Danger Needed Illness Mental Illness My Children Bombs Bangs Psychiatric Depressive Time Bomb

Author:Trisha Goddard

“The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the subjective, the ordering of the world in line with your needs, an inability to contemplate your own unimportance. In Henry's view such reasoning belongs on a spectrum at whose far end, rearing like an abandoned temple, lies psychosis.”

Thinking World Needs Ideas Ends Problem Lying Lines Views Amount Reasoning Temples Excess Abandoned Contemplating Primitive Colleagues Inability Subjective Spectrum Psychosis Psychiatric

Book:Saturday

Source: Saturday

“Foods of the Gods”) - “After water, cocoa is the single healthiest substance you can put in your mouth. It can easily replace a number of psychiatric drugs for mood, plus it produces the same chemistry in the brain that occurs when we fall in love.”

Fall Water Numbers Brain Produce Drug Mouths Falling In Love Mood Substance Plus Chemistry Psychiatric Cocoa

Author:Chris Kilham

“Viktor Frankl's timeless formula for survival. One of the classic psychiatric texts of our time, Man's Search for Meaning is a meditation on the irreducible gift of one's own counsel in the face of great suffering, as well as a reminder of the responsibility each of us owes in valuing the community of our humanity. There are few wiser, kinder, or more comforting challenges than Frankl's.”

“I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library.”

Thinking Way Book Rooms Serious Needed Fit Library Treatment Categories Divided Right Way Organised Psychiatric Buenos Aires

Author:Alberto Manguel

“Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.”

Needs Helping House Enjoy Parliament Psychiatry Psychiatric House Of Commons

Author:Ken Livingstone

“We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.”

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Author:Chester Brown

“A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon.”

Men May Body Machines Scientist Jargon Psychiatric Great Scientist

Author:R. D. Laing