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“For the diagnostic categories for which drugs are far and away the first-line form of treatment, such as the ‘mood disorders’, ‘eating disorders’, ‘psychotic disorders’ and ‘anxiety disorders’, an average of 88% of all DSM-IV panel members had drug company financial ties.”
James Davies, Cracked: The Unhappy Truth about Psychiatry

Wisława Szymborska
“I have no idea who dreamed up the idiotic notion that summer vacations require "light" reading. Just the opposite, since the "light" books get read—if any reading's done at all—before bedtime, after the office work and house work, when we lack the concentration required for heavier fare.”
Wisława Szymborska, Nonrequired Reading

George Eliot
“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“On n’y échappe pas : il faut déconstruire tout ce qui fait la beauté de cette langue, les mots, leurs sonorités si anciennes, les références littéraires, les subtilités de l’écriture, l’étymologie et la part d’histoire singulière qu’elle contient. La langue de la traduction est toujours défaillante. Je ne peux rien contre la perte irrémédiable de ce qui me touche le plus. [...]

Il y a bien longtemps – aussi loin que mes souvenirs remontent – j’ai trouvé refuge dans la lecture et dans la littérature. Puis ce fut dans l’entre-deux de la traduction, ce pont flottant au milieu des brumes [...]. Je rêve encore à Babel, non comme un monde totalitaire où nous serions tous sommés de ressentir la même chose et de l’exprimer de manière identique, mais comme une unité profonde et sous-jacente courant sous des mots différents, sous des regards fragmentés qui mettent en lumière différents aspects du réel.”
Corinne Atlan, Le Pont flottant des rêves

Joanna Moncrieff
“This view of psychiary [as a genuine scientific activity] is premised on the idea that modern drugs are disease- or symptom-specific treatments; that they work by reversing some or all of an underlying physical pathology. It is the idea of the specificity of action that makes drug treatment appear to be a therapeutic, medical enterprise. If, in contrast, modern psychiatric treatments are not specific, if they act merely by inducing psychoactive effects that suppress or contain psychiatric distress and problematic behaviours, then psychiatry has not moved far from its historical roots as a [...] medicalized form of social control.”
Joanna Moncrieff, De-Medicalizing Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition

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