Mental illness, of course, is not literally a ‘thing’ – or physical object – and hence it can ‘exist’ only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

The system isn’t stupid, but the people in it are.

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

‘Psychotherapy’ is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.