Allen Frances famous quotes

Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling ones.
-- Allen Frances

#Waiting #Made #Disorder

Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.
-- Allen Frances

#Tests #Diagnosis #Judgment

There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.
-- Allen Frances

#Rays #Doe #Tests

I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.

Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity - if activity is the right word for it - because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.

When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.

I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.

Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

If you're spending so much time at the gym that your mail is forwarded there, you're not dedicated - you've got a mental disorder.

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.