"A mental illness may explain a person's behavior. It seldom excuses it."

- American Psychiatric Association web site posting, 1996

     "Part of the psychotherapy in brief reactive psychosis (BRP) will deal with reassuring that in almost all cases the psychosis will not recur. This is because psychosis has a stigma that once you are psychotic, you are psychotic for life. BRP is the exception."

- Dr. A. Efren Reyes, psychiatrist, National Center for Mental Health

     "We must make sure that the routine vaccination of infants has to be very high. To attack this problem we have to be consistent and dependable and not just have damage control-type strategies."

- Dr. Manuel Dayrit, Secretary of Health 

     "Forensic psychiatrists are there to defend their findings kahit na for or against the patient. Wala tayong kinakampihan."

- Dr. Isagani Gonzales, chief, National Center for Mental Health-Forensic Service

     "The capacity for evil is a human universal."

- Dr. Robert Simon, psychiatrist, Georgetown University School of Medicine
quoted in Newsweek, May 21, 2001

     "When people look at a dangerous violent criminal at the beginning of his developmental process than at the very end of it, they see, perhaps unexpectedly, that the dangerous violent criminal began as a relatively benign human being for whom they would probably have more sympathy than antipathy."

- Richard Rhodes, author of Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist