Administrations of Lunacy Quotes

“As Mrs. Carter in another context observed, there are adequate financial resources available to fund adequate mental health if we simply invest in the right kinds of programs—the ones that we know work—rather than squandering millions and millions of dollars and lives in jails and prisons.”
― Mab Segrest, Administrations of Lunacy: A Story of Racism and Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum

“Deegan elaborated that the goal of such recovery “is not to become normal” or to “get mainstreamed,” but to “embrace our human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human.”
― Mab Segrest, Administrations of Lunacy: A Story of Racism and Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum

“Henderson had learned the hard way the dangers of irony in a culture so committed to its deceptions, to those obvious lies that held together its violent rationales.”
― Mab Segrest, Administrations of Lunacy: A Story of Racism and Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum