Quotes About Medicalization

#1. The psychiatric endeavor - voodoo, really - is premised on the medicalization of misconduct.

Ilana Mercer

#2. The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient.

Ivan Illich

#3. The medicalization of American life from birth to death is killing our souls.

Hattie Bryant

#4. Why is ADHD so much more common in the United States today than it was 30 or 40 years ago? And why is it so much more common today in the United States than elsewhere? My answer is "the medicalization of misbehavior.

Leonard Sax

#5. Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

Cyril Connolly

#6. I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

Steve Lacy

#7. All the bullying instincts in her nature rose to the surface. It was not that she was basically unkind. It was because she was so frightened and unsure of herself she was harsh lest others learn her inadequacies: and refuse her authority.

Margaret Mitchell

#8. When I go and teach, it sort of opens me up in some way. And when you're open, you're more receptive.

Stephen Frears

#9. But when you look at the rubbish who are getting these awards and the absolute non-service they have given to the nation other than financing or working for political parties, you say, 'What company am I in?'.

Michael Winner

#10. Do you remember the last thing you said to me? The last thing you did to me? And what was the last thing I said to you? Because trust me when I said it I knew it was the last thing I'd ever say.

Jay Asher

#11. When alchemists first learned how to distill spirits, they called it aqua vitae, the water of life, and far from considering it the work of the devil, they thought the discovery was divinely inspired.

Gene Logsdon

#12. Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.

Ashley Wagner

#13. For the present when backed by the past is a thousand times deeper than the present when it presses so close that you can feel nothing else

Olivia Laing

#14. Exhaustion without reward is torture.

Kerlynne Ferrer