Psychosis Quotes - Page 3

• Conventional psychiatry has emphasized the genetic roots of psychosis based on the claim that twin and other studies show that schizophrenia is 80% heritable, which means that 80% of the cause is genetic.

  Richard Bentall

  Mean, Roots, Causes

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• This is the psychosis of being a human being - the things that we deal with on a day-to-day basis that make us who we are and that sometimes we have to get on the couch and talk out.

  Nate Parker

  Who We Are, Sometimes, Couches

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In their overestimation of the role of civilization, the humanists misunderstand the primary forces of the world of primitive human drives with their untamable violence. With their optimistic view of the role of culture, they (the humanists) trivialize the terrifying, hardly solvable problems of mass hatred and of the great passionate psychoses of the human race.

  Stefan Zweig

  Hate, Optimistic, Race

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• There is also evidence from epidemiological studies that psychotic-like experiences are much more common than has hitherto been thought (with about 10% of the population affected) and that these experiences exist on continua with healthy or 'normal' functioning: instead of the world falling into two groups (the psychotic and the non-psychotic) people vary in their disposition to psychosis and only a minority of people who have these experiences require or seek help.

  Richard Bentall

  Fall, Two, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think when people try to use their art for political views, I think they're art becomes smaller, less interesting. And so for me, as an artist, I'm trying to speak about things in a universal way and not be pedantic or small-minded and try to convince other people of my political views. But having said that, every day I live in sort of complete terror because of what I read in the newspaper and what is going on in the world. I'm constantly, as I think many of us are, overwhelmed by the sort of, mass psychosis that's occurring.

  Sean Lennon

  Art, Thinking, Views

  "Sean Lennon speaks". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. March 22, 2010.

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• Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It's a 'Matrix' of you, so you're communicating with people all the time using Scientology.

  Jason Beghe

  People, Promise, Neurosis

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• LSD was not a pharmacological agent generating exotic experiences by its interaction with the neurophysiological processes in the brain. This remarkable substance was clearly an unspecific catalyst of the deep dynamics of the human psyche. The experiences induced by it were not neurochemical artifacts, symptoms of a toxic psychosis as mainstream psychiatrists called it, but genuine manifestations of the human psyche itself.

  Stanislav Grof

  Brain, Substance, Exotic

  Stanislav Grof (2009). “When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-Ordinary Realities, Read How You Want Edition”, p.58, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In TheColorful Apocalypse, Greg Bottoms explores the frontier between inspiration and psychosis with the expressive power, the passionate fervor, and the faithfully unflinching honesty for which his work is deservedly known. This book is incisive, startling, and often genuinely moving.

  Madison Smartt Bell

  Honesty, Moving, Book

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• The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.

  Spider Robinson

  Reality, Patterns, Way

  "Lady Slings the Booze". Book by Spider Robinson, 1992.

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• The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.

  Ian Mcewan

  Luxury, Safety, Half

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Saturday”, p.57, Random House

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• Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or at least they coexisted with these states.

  Lorrie Moore

  Sex, Believe, Ties

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.166, Faber & Faber

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• I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in his bedroom; on the contrary, my father...once laughingly told my mother that he thought I might suffer from a type of benign psychosis called "antiparanoia," in which I seemed to believe that I was the object of an intricate universal conspiracy to make me so happy I could hardly stand it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Mother, Children, Father

  "All That" by David Foster Wallace, www.newyorker.com. December 14, 2009.

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• At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit of the eye, into the frontal lobe; the ice pick was then stirred around until it reduced the problematic brain tissue to non-functioning porridge.

  Alastair Reynolds

  Eye, Ice, Brain

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• The United States does not have a monopoly on crazy people. It's not the only country that has psychosis. And yet we kill each other in these mass shootings at rates that are exponentially higher than anyone else. Well, what's the difference? The difference is that these guys can stack up a bunch of ammunition in their houses, and that's sort of par for the course.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Crazy, Gun

  "Exasperated Obama: Inability to get tougher gun laws shameful" by Kevin Liptak, www.cnn.com. June 10, 2014.

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• LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it.

  Timothy Leary

  People, Drug, Lsd

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• Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ego, World, Neurosis

  Sigmund Freud (1973). “Abstracts of the Standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.

  Terence McKenna

  Taken, Marijuana, People

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• I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis, torture, depression: I was told that if something is unpleasant it's probably feminine. This encouraged me, but the theory was blown by such masculine nouns as murder, toothache, and rollerblade. I have no problem learning the words themselves, it's the sexes that trip me up and refuse to stick.

  David Sedaris

  Sex, Hysteria, Common Sense

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• Oh, I'm crazy all right. I do have plenty of psychoses. Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most of all, I'm crazy about you.

  Eoin Colfer

  Crazy, Personality, Ocd

  Eoin Colfer (2010). “Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex”, p.108, Penguin UK

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• I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.

  John Fowles

  War, Historical, Inability

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.

  Spalding Gray

  Moving, Camels, Lag

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• The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live with the darkness of fear, oppression, and threats. When all its attempts to move the adult to heed its story have failed, it resorts to the language of symptoms to make itself heard. Enter addiction, psychosis, criminality.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Moving, Addiction

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• Says Bargh: "We all hold dear idea that we´re the captain of our own sould, and we´re in charge, and it´s a very scary feeling when we are not. In fact, that´s what psychosis is - the feeling of detachment from reality and that you are not in control, and that´s a very frightening feeling for anyone."

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Reality, Ideas, Scary

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• Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Violence, Illness, Mood

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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• Not me," said Orion cheerily. "I'm just a teenager with hormones running wild. And may I say ,young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction." Holly lifted her visor and looked the hormonal teenager in the eye. "This had better not be a game, Artemis. If you do not have some serious psychosis, you will be sorry." "Oh, I'm crazy, alright. I do have plenty of psychoses," said Orion Cheerily. "Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most of all, I'm crazy about you.

  Eoin Colfer

  Running, Sorry, Crazy

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