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If we knew more about psychology, we would be better equipped to deal with other people's psychological damage which they might project onto us.

I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease. But I think that is literally half-baked. If all you do is work to fix problems, to alleviate suffering, then by definition you are working to get people to zero, to neutral.

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

Mental health can be just as important as physical health - and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.

The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.