Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Patricia Deegan

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American psychologist Patricia Deegan.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Patricia E. Deegan, Ph.D., is a disability-rights advocate, psychologist and researcher living in the United States. She has been described as a "national spokesperson for the mental health consumer/survivor movement in the United States." Deegan is known as an advocate of the mental health recovery movement and is an international speaker and trainer in the field of mental health.

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The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.

Patricia Deegan

The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human.

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The goal is to become the unique, awesome, never to be repeated human being that we were called to be.

Patricia Deegan

We are a conspiracy of hope and we are pressing back against the strong tide of oppression which for centuries has been the legacy of those of us who are labelled with mental illness. We are refusing to reduce human beings to illnesses.

Patricia Deegan

I believe it is a spirit of hope that gathers us here together today.

Patricia Deegan

We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of infinite value.

Patricia Deegan

People need to have 'the dignity of risk' and 'the right to fail'.

Patricia Deegan

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Patricia Deegan

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