Psychiatry Quotes

Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the point of scandal, in certain cases related to psychiatry.

I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to the category of pseudo-science.

A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money.

Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.

Through the miracles of modern medicine George Burns still chases pretty girls, and through the miracle of modern psychiatry he intends to find out why!

Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.

The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.

I think people who go to a psychiatrist ought to have their heads examined.

I'm a practicing psychiatrist and I think that I really believe in the advances of psychiatry. Our diagnoses are more precise.

Everybody believes in psychiatry it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.

I practiced medicine up 'til now. I practice psychiatry. I shifted from different specialties. I started as a village doctor - community doctor, public health preventive medicine.

it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.

At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.

Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.

Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.

Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?

I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year then I'm going to Lourdes.

I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.

In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.

How sick in your mind and your soul to be scared of my voice and my words.

Ten minutes of meditation a day, keeps the psychiatrist away.

All the repressed emotions and subconscious desires in time lead to some kind of psychological or physiological breakdown, if kept unchecked.

A question that always makes me hazy is it me or are the others crazy'Albert Einstein

What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.

Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world.

Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of it. The human mind was easier to medicate than to comprehend.

If you doubt your sanity, is that proof?

Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines.

Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much.

The human being is so complicated in some ways, and yet so simple in others. Sometimes, we need complex medication regimens. Yet, sometimes, we just need a good cry.

I had sent her to four consecutive psychiatrists, and not one of them had gotten me sober.

Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment.

If the mind fits, shrink it.

Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.

Since when did psychiatry become one big, fat Myspace survey?

My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional.

Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience

The irony of taking Anti Depressants: you take them to feel good but they also make you feel bad or worse because you worry about your purse.

The irony of seeking a shrink: they are successful in shrinking your brain but unfortunately they also make your wallet shrink.

They safely cured the world of sadness, wiser the Pfizer for it?

Sometimes I get so sad that it jest sounds good.

…all that goes under the name of science is not necessarily scientific, and that all that goes under the name of health-care will not necessarily care for your health.

Sanity is over-rated. It lacks color.

What’s more insane? Hearing imaginary voices? Or not hearing the real ones?

[A]ll mental disorders are in some sense passionate convictions about the situation of the self in the world.

And all our gods are not lies. They existed. All our gods, from the beginning of time, have been men with psychiatric conditions. And their delusions were so deep, they passed them on.

The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them.