Psychiatry Quotes

Psychiatry Quote of the day

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Going to a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things a person can do.

Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse.

Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy.

The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient.

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

I think that one of the things that has happened is that psychiatry has become the religion of liberalism.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the soul.

I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession.

I come from a liberal tradition. I'm Jewish. My dad was a liberal. What I've found is that people who see themselves as thoughtful, caring, educated and informed have swallowed psychiatry as the way.

I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars!

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball.

It's funny - people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and THEY go to CHURCH.

Psychiatry is a dirty mirror.

We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.

miracles occur in psychoanalysis as seldom as anywhere else.

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.

LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.

Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.

Psychiatry causes so much death

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

All neurotics seek the religious

A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.

The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.

Only in psychiatry is the existence of physical disease determined by APA presidential proclamations, by committee decisions, and even, by a vote of the members of APA, not to mention the courts.

Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who needs a psychiatrist must be crazy.

I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!