Jasper Ho

“How many psychiatrists does it take to change a lightbulb?” He waited. “How many?” I finally asked back. “Only one, but the lightbulb has to want to be changed, and it takes a very long time.”
― Adam Stern, Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training

“stronger bonds to take hold. We will not cure this man’s crisis of identity, but we can hold him up until he finds his footing.”
― Adam Stern, Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training

“The fact that psychedelics are about to become medicines shows that they should never have been banned in the first place—probably not even for recreational use, but certainly not as medicines. There are 50 years’ worth of people with mental illnesses and addictions who have been denied the best treatment that could have been available.”
― David J. Nutt, Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert

“That the only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.”
― Thomas Insel, Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health