Femi Oyebode > Quotes

“Psychiatry and neuropathology are not merely two closely related fields, they are but one field in which only one language is spoken and the same laws rule. Wilhelm Griesinger (1868) I have always been intrigued by the specific moment when, as we sit awaiting in the auditorium, the door to the stage opens and a performer steps into the light, or, to take the other perspective, the moment when a performer who waits in semidarkness sees the same door open, revealing the lights, the stage, and the audience … as I reflect on what I have written, I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and momentous coming of the self into the world of the mental.”
― Femi Oyebode, Sims' Symptoms in the Mind: Textbook of Descriptive Psychopathology: Sims' Symptoms in the Mind: Textbook of Descriptive Psychopathology E-Book

“large part of medical ethics and much of the whole underpinning of current medical policy, private and public, are squarely based on the notion of disease and normality. Left to himself the physician (whether he realizes it or not) can do very well without a formal definition of disease … Unfortunately, the physician is not left alone to work his common sense. He is attacked from two angles: the predatory consumers and the pretentious advisers. Murphy (1979)”
― Femi Oyebode, Sims' Symptoms in the Mind: Textbook of Descriptive Psychopathology: Sims' Symptoms in the Mind: Textbook of Descriptive Psychopathology E-Book

“The medical humanities are described as including medical ethics, medical sociology, social history of medicine, and the application of literature and the arts in general to medicine.”
― Femi Oyebode, Mindreadings: Literature and Psychiatry