The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride, Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side. [Lat., Dat Galenus opes, dat Justinianus honores, Sed genus species cogitur ire pedes.]

The death of a child is the single most traumatic event in medicine. To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself.

Rather than being medicalized or romanticized, mental disorders, or mental dis-eases, should be understood as nothing less or more than what they are, an expression of our deepest human nature. By recognizing their traits in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be able both to contain them and to put them to good use. This is, no doubt, the highest form of genius.

Other pressing problems with the current medical model [of mental disorder] is that it encourages false epidemics, most glaringly in bipolar disorder and ADHD, and the wholesale exportation of Western mental disorders and Western accounts of mental disorder. Taken together, this is leading to a pandemic of Western disease categories and treatments, while undermining the variety and richness of the human experience.

To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead

I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself