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The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.


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Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.



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In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.



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Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.



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