Rosenhan Quotes

#1. Once labeled schizophrenic the pseudopatient was stuck with that label. - DAVID ROSENHAN,

Jon Ronson

#2. The self-esteem of psychiatry got very low as a result of it. It had never really been accepted as part of medicine because the diagnoses were so unreliable, and the Rosenhan experiment confirmed it." Spitzer's

Jon Ronson

#3. Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.

Norman Lamm

#4. The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable, but we have nevertheless continued to use them. We now know that we cannot distinguish insanity from sanity.

David Rosenhan

#5. Bonhoeffer's permanent legacy as a theologian has been to show that in the modern world, as in Josiah's and Huldah's Jerusalem, fostering the discomfiting yet life-giving practice of reading the Bible against ourselves is a major public responsibility of the Christian teacher and theologian.

Ellen F. Davis

#6. I said no strippers, I said, watching dumbfounded as Trenton danced around the room to Britney Spears.

Jamie McGuire

#7. Life is really hard for some people.

Beeban Kidron

#8. Support cripples ability, pity smothers courage,
But criticism glistens rusted brilliancy.

Akshmala Sharma

#9. -I thought you were dead.
-I was, a bit.

Jennifer Bosworth