Nosology Quotes

“It is the desire for irreverence as much as anything else that brought me first to poetry. The need to make fun of authority, break taboos, celebrate the body and its functions, claim that one has seen angels in the same breath as one says that there is no god.”
― Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth

“The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as an effort to move certain kinds of psychological distress into the biomedical realm.”
― Carl Elliott

“No conceptually regimented and normatively informed theory of mental disorder can be devised without taking philosophy of mind seriously and knowing something about this subject area of philosophy and of such topics as consciousness, Intentionality, personal identity, the mind/body problem and rationality.”
― George Graham, The Disordered Mind: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Mental Illness

“To record merely patients' symptoms without considering their subjective and cultural experiences should never be the basis for diagnosis.”
― Man Cheung Chung, Reconceiving Schizophrenia