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81 " Once labeled schizophrenic the pseudopatient was stuck with that label. —DAVID ROSENHAN, "
― Jon Ronson , The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
82 " 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 "
83 " name. It was truly a revolution in psychiatry, and a gold rush for drug companies, who suddenly had hundreds of new disorders they could invent medications for, millions of new patients they could treat. “The "
84 " this was a man palpably simulating crying, which made the moment at once awkward, surreal, and quite disturbing. Our "
85 " And a surfeit of checklists, coupled with unscrupulous drug reps, is, Gary said, a dreadful combination. There "
86 " Many kids who would have been called eccentric, different, were suddenly labeled autistic.” I "
87 " The way the diagnosis is being made in America was not something we intended,” he said. “Kids with extreme irritability and moodiness and temper tantrums are being called bipolar. "
88 " Terrible things had been done in Haiti in his name. He had profoundly altered Haitian society for three years, set it spiraling frantically in the wrong direction, destroying the lives of thousands, tainting hundreds of thousands more. "
89 " Well,” he said, “the downside of having no barriers between doctors and patients was that everyone became a patient.” There "
90 " Others took exception to being forced to wear little-girl-type dresses (a psychopath-devised punishment for noncooperation in the program). "
91 " I learned, the field of interest was a man from Wales who could recognize all his sheep as individuals but couldn’t recognize human faces, not even his wife, not even himself in the mirror. "
92 " It was, she said, the way the book had revealed an inherent narcissism in its recipients. "
93 " They assumed the endeavor was brilliant and rational because they were brilliant and rational, and we tend to automatically assume that everybody else is basically just like us. "
94 " Can’t you see? It’s incredibly interesting. Aren’t you struck by how much action occurred simply because something went wrong with one man’s brain? It’s as if the rational world, your world, was a still pond and Petter’s brain was a jagged rock thrown into it, creating odd ripples everywhere.” The "
95 " I hadn’t realized what a collage of mental disorders my whole life has been, "
96 " they saw how well behaved I was, and decided it meant I could only behave well in the environment of a psychiatric hospital and it proved I was mad.” I "
97 " On the outside, Tony said, not wanting to spend time with your criminally insane neighbors would be a perfectly understandable position. But on the inside it demonstrates you’re withdrawn and aloof and you have a grandiose sense of your own importance. "
98 " They wrote in their reports that it proved him to be “cunning” and “manipulative” and also that he was suffering from “cognitive distortion” because he didn’t believe he was mad. Tony "
99 " Tony said just being here can be enough to turn someone crazy. "
100 " Tony faked mental illness. That’s when you have hallucinations and delusions. Mental illness comes and goes. It can get better with medication. Tony is a psychopath. That doesn’t come and go. It is how the person is.” Faking "