Psychiatry Quotes
He tried to sleep, but his head was filled with the faces of lunatics, their palsied hands, their shattered eyes.
You know how they say that if you think you might be going crazy, it’s proof that you’re not? Well, it’s a lie. One of many they tell you about mental illness.
Denial and minimizing is often seen in genuine PTSD and, hence, should be a target of detection and measurement.
Leave him with his God. I’m sure He’s as hard and unforgiving as Cain is. I don’t want to know about Cain’s God. If he is anything to be guided by, I’d rather be an atheist, thank you.
Maybe you’re so good at listening that you have no idea when to speak.” ~Braeden
For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.
Madmen, criminals, and rapists! Isn’t it fantastic? All the romantic proposals I’ve ever got from anybody. Somebody up there has an extremely dark sense of humour.
A neurotic is the man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.
Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.
The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.
The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else's.
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.
I believe that this neglected wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.