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When we describe and think about ourselves through a language of disease, and when we seek technical or scientific solutions to our problems, we can lose sight of the social origins of disease and stigma.
Roy R. Grinker • Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
Claude Lévi-Strauss wrote, we have made the cultural “problem” of differences, anomaly, and abnormality central to every culture.
Jonathan Mooney • Normal Sucks
anthropologist A. L. Kroeber notes, “We have no record of cultureless human societies.”
W. David Marx • Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
untrained mind is the most dangerous thing in the universe.
Tina Louise Spalding • Making Love to God: The Path to Divine Sex
Stigma does not derive from ignorance or lack of knowledge, but rather from the conception of mental illness as the sign of the idle, a personality incapable of achieving the ideal: producing for oneself and the economy.20
Roy R. Grinker • Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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