Mary Vieten Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Mary Vieten God bless 'em, they mean well, but what do psychiatrists do? They deal with mental illness. That is the model. Mary Vieten top-news You don't go into the theater of operations as a highly skilled professional with god-like powers and then suddenly one day, you know, have a screw loose, it just doesn't make sense. Mary Vieten top-news There is no mental illness here, people will call us all the time and ask if we are going to take their pills away or be in pajamas, because that's the way they've been treated in the past is in programs where they start out in pajamas with no possessions. And I just say to them on the phone 'Why would we do that?' If you're not mentally ill, what would be the point of that exercise? Mary Vieten top-news It's a matter of educating them about what happened. Mary Vieten top-news
