“The dominating idea of English society was not cultivate virtue but to avoid scandal.”

“The dominating idea of English society was not cultivate virtue but to avoid scandal.”

“If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating mental illness as a genetically influenced disorder of brain chemistry--has been a smashing success. Freud's ideas, which dominated the history of psychiatry for the past half century, are now vanishing like the last snows of winter.”