Allen Frances 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

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

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“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

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

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.199, Thomas Nelson Inc

“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.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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

Source : Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Big Stone Gap: A Novel”, p.25, Ballantine Books

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

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

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

Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)

“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.”

Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.10, D & M Publishers