Allen Frances quotes
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“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.”
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“Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.”
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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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Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.199, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House
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“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
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”
Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
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“I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.”
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“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
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