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Medicine or Magic

Medicine or Magic

Thomas Szasz Quote:Thomas Szasz quote

“Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.”

Thomas Szasz, Author

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Peter Breggin quote

Peter Breggin quote

“If you assume that every child is sensitive, vulnerable, readily injured and easily broken, then you will never be far from the truth. If you assume that all children are motivated by pride and justice, you will be able to communicate with them. If you assume that all children should be treated as sacred trusts who deserve your full measure of devotion, you will be on the right path. If you seek to find the vulnerable, precious child in yourself and in all other adults at all times in your dealings with yourself and others, you will have achieved enlightenment. You will become a gift to the children in your life to whatever degree that you remain enlightened in your dealings with them.”
from Reclaiming Our Children by Peter Breggin, M.D. (p. 110)

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Diagnostic Labels

“We can manufacture enough diagnostic labels of normal variability of mood and thought that we can continually supply medication to you … But when it comes to manufacturing disease, nobody does it like psychiatry.”

~ Dr. Stefan Kruszewski, psychiatrist, Pennsylvania Medical Society, 2004

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Psychiatric Illness

“The way to sell drugs is to sell psychiatric illness.”
Dr. Carl Elliot, University of Minnesota Bioethicist (The Washington Post, 2001)

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