"Schizophrenia will continue to be a mystery so long as we fail to understand the forces and the organization which make for the wholeness of the personality."
- British writer and psychiatrist
Anthony Storr,
in
The Integrated Personality
"No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not 'got' schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic."
- Scottish psychiatrist
R. D. Laing (1927 - 1989),
in
The Divided Self
"[Seamen] are paid a lot, but they are the ones with a shorter life span. That's the truth."
- Neurologist-psychiatrist
Raymond Rosales,
at the Philippine Psychiatric Association
annual convention in January
"Aggression is normal. But how it is channeled, how it is expressed, is something [that could be] abnormal."
- Psychiatrist
Aida Muncada,
National Center for Mental Health
"We are fighting an infection, and we are fighting public hysteria. And I think public hysteria is harder to manage sometimes."
- Health secretary
Manuel Dayrit,
in a SARS forum on April 10
Raising morale and achieving patient satisfaction constitute only the beginning and not an end point in the long, and at times disconcerting, battle with schizophrenia.
- Psychiatrist Edgardo Tolentino,
at the Philippine Psychiatric Association
annual convention in January
"One thing we don't want to happen is to be so paranoid, that you take away the TV from the children. That's what's happening in some homes. They sanitize the environ-ment of their homes because they're afraid that if the child sees some sex, some violence going on, they would already imitate. But children are resilient."
- Clinical psychologist
Violeta Villaroman-Bautista, Life Change Counseling Center
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