“We dont have the methods of curing these illnesses yet. Dr. Rex Cowdry, psychiatrist and director of National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), 1995
The time when psychiatrists considered that they could cure the mentally ill is gone. In the future the mentally ill have to learn to live with their illness. Norman Satorius, president of the World Psychiatric Association in 1994
Whats a cure? its just that its a term that we dont use in the medical [psychiatric] profession. Dr. Joseph Johnson, California psychiatrist during court deposition, 2003
Psychiatrists were surveyed about their fantasies about their practice. Their Number 1 fantasy was: 1: I will be able to cure the patient. The Number 2 fantasy was: The patient wants to know what his or her problem is. Dr. Sander Berger, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Michigan State University, Psychiatric Times, 1998