“ Her parents, she said, has put a pinball machine inside her head when she was five years old. The red balls told her when she should laugh, the blue ones when she should be silent and keep away from o… Kay Redfield Jamison
“ We must bear in mind, however sadly, that psychopathology is no longer the exclusive preserve of the degenerate and perverse. The Congo, Vietnam, Biafra -these are games that anyone can play. Their vi… Ballard James G.
“ We shall bear in linea, however sadly, that psychopathology is no longer the exclusive preserve of the degenerate and perverse. The Congo, Vietnam, Biafra- these are games that anyone can play (...) W… Ballard James G.
“ Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost. Richard von Krafft-Ebing
“ Under the heading of "defense mechanisms,” psychoanalysis describes a number of ways in which a person becomes alienated from himself. For example, repression, denial, splitting, projection, introject… R.D. Laing
“ There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end. Richard von Krafft-Ebing
“ I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be the slave of her husband. Richard von Krafft-Ebing
“ The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'. Richard von Krafft-Ebing
“ All our hope rests upon the possibility of a change of the laws which concern it, so that only rape or the comission of public offence, when this can be proved at the same time, shall be punishable. Richard von Krafft-Ebing
“ He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself. Richard von Krafft-Ebing
“ ...American psychology effectively guaranteed its place as a cultural icon by helping to create the pathologies it simultaneously promised to treat. (p. 37) Alvin Dueck
“ Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, bu… Brent Weeks
