We've Been Too Patient Quotes

“The body remembers. It waits, patiently, until we feel strong enough to meet the parts we have abandoned. The ones we want most to forget.”
― L.D. Green, We've Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health--Stories and Research Challenging the Biomedical Model

“In the domain of mental health, huge pools of data are being used to train algorithms to identify signs of mental illness—a threat I call “surveillance psychiatry.” Electronic health records, data mining social networks, and even algorithmically classifying video surveillance will significantly amplify this approach. Corporations and governments are salivating at the prospect of identifying psychological vulnerability and dissent.”
― L.D. Green, We've Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health--Stories and Research Challenging the Biomedical Model

“The Icarus Project represents a new wave of resistance, one that shifts from the ontological questions of the definition of disease and illness, to the epistemological questions of whose stories and voices are considered in the production of psychiatric knowledge.”
― L.D. Green, We've Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health--Stories and Research Challenging the Biomedical Model

“Ethan Watters published a book called Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche, which details how psychiatry and psychopharmacology have collaborated to basically make the rest of the world as miserable as America,”
― L.D. Green, We've Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health--Stories and Research Challenging the Biomedical Model

“The voice of those with “lived experience” can be broadly grouped into two types, depending on whether they understand their own lives within the context of the conventional medical paradigm, or in resistance to that paradigm, and it is only the first group that is well heard by society”
― L.D. Green, We've Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health--Stories and Research Challenging the Biomedical Model