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Psychosis is a very Western phenomena. -- Alberto Villoldo
Psychosis is person less persona, raving sincerity. -- Brian Spellman
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. -- Brendan Behan
I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle. -- Jeanette Winterson
All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis. -- Helen Suzman
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis. -- Karl Abraham
I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult. -- Karl Abraham
This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself. -- Marie Osmond
He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it. -- Jeanette Winterson
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. -- Douglas MacArthur
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. -- Thomas Szasz
Were I to put myself on... one of those online dating things, I would not include in my profile that I'm regularly hospitalized for psychosis. But I do know that when I get really bad, there is a place for me to go where I will feel better. -- Marya Hornbacher
I think our collective psychosis is hilarious. With the world moving as fast as it is, if we weren't dysfunctional, we couldn't function. -- Christopher Titus
Americans are now certifiably insane. They are crazy. They are suffering a mass psychosis. They have lost their own ability to discern right from wrong. -- Joseph Farah
Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis. -- Albert Ellis
It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours. -- Philip K. Dick
A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world. -- Sigmund Freud
What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we call psychosis is sometimes simply realism. But human beings can't live on realism alone. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another. -- Paulo Coelho
We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that women just do. We forget that it is a violent act, that it bespeaks a profound level of anger toward and fear of the self. -- Marya Hornbacher
Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without parole but sets a murderer free after perhaps six years is in the grips of a deep psychosis. -- Eric Schlosser
The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the subjective, the ordering of the world in line with your needs, an inability to contemplate your own unimportance. In Henry's view such reasoning belongs on a spectrum at whose far end, rearing like an abandoned temple, lies psychosis. -- Ian Mcewan
We need to ask whether, in the long term, some individuals with a history of psychosis may do better off medication. -- Thomas R. Insel
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. -- Douglas MacArthur
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character. -- Eddie Izzard
I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do. -- Zadie Smith
I don't believe in, and I am a devout non-believer, in playing new songs live if the subjected and pathetic crowd has not heard them before because I consider it like mass psychosis and genocidal. -- Peter Steele
My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're on a mission. -- Elyn Saks
If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and his play 'The Crucible' analysed the hearings in the context of a previous American mass psychosis, the Salem witch trials. -- Jane Smiley
Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis. -- Brad Holland
I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or 14, because I was the kind of kid that was curious about the mysterious human mind - I hoped to learn about telekenisis, multiple personalities, psychosis, and various other cool and terrible things that happened inside people's heads. -- Dan Chaon
I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so deadly focused on something that they want or desire - there's a dedication and a single-mindedness that's great. But then if it goes on too long it becomes a psychosis. What's the French term for it? Idee fixe. -- Callum Keith Rennie
Love is a state of temporary psychosis. -- Sigmund Freud
Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any. -- Terence McKenna
The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety. -- Ian Mcewan
LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it. -- Timothy Leary
Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction. -- Christian Baloga
If the Internet has given us anything, it's some idea of how much psychosis goes undiagnosed. -- Jan Burke
When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis! -- Lily Tomlin
I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel. -- Spalding Gray
Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them. -- Rajneesh
He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence -- Jack Kerouac
My safe, safe psychosis is broken. It was hard. It was made of stone. It covered my face like a mask. But it has cracked. -- Anne Sexton
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
Here at CBS, spring also means March Madness. I love the name March Madness. I'm glad the PC police haven't made us change March Madness to early spring psychosis. -- Craig Ferguson
Homosexuals die decades younger than heterosexuals, from a host of maladies. They suffer mental problems ranging from depression to psychosis, and have suicide rates many times that of heterosexuals. -- David Duke
Up and down' is Irish for anything at all--from crying into the dishes to full-blown psychosis. Though, now that I think about, a psychotic is more usually 'not quite herself'. -- Anne Enright
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
At the population level, making the world more just and less unequal, while trying to figure out the toxic aspects of the urban environmental will probably help prevent a lot of psychosis. -- Richard Bentall
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
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

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