Quotes of Psychiatry - somelinesforyou

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

- Laurence J. Peter

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

- Henry Kissinger

“ Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. ”

- Samuel Goldwyn

“ A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergere and looks at the audience. ”

- Bishop Mervyn Stockwood

“ Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd. ”

- Unknown

“ I knew immediately that this drug would have importance for psychiatry but, at that time, I would never have believed that this substance could be used in the drug scene, just for pleasure. For me it was a deep and mystical experience and not just an everyday pleasurable one… ”

- Albert Hofmann

“ The difference between a neurotic, a psychotic, and a psychiatrist. The neurotic builds castles in the sky, the psychotic lives in them and the psychiatrist collects the rent. ”

- Unknown

“ The difference between a neurotic, a psychotic, and a psychiatrist. The neurotic builds castles in the sky, the psychotic lives in them and the psychiatrist collects the rent. ”

- Unknown

“ You go to psychiatrist when you're slightly cracked and keep going until you're completely broke. ”

- Unknown

“ You go to psychiatrist when your slightly cracked and keep going until you're completely broke. ”

- Unknown

“ To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. ”

- William James

“ It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ I maintained that psychiatry, in the broadest sense, is a dialogue between the sick psyche and the psyche of the doctor, which is presumed to be 'normal.' It is a coming to terms between the sick personality and that of the therapist, both in principle equally subjective. ”

- Carl Gustav Jung

“ It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone the two currents of my interest could flow together and in a united stream dig their own bed. Here was the empirical field common to biological and spiritual facts, which I had everywhere sought and nowhere found… ”

- Carl Gustav Jung

“ Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the intellectual expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-medical jargon that parodies the concepts of science… ”

- Thomas Szasz

“ We don't feel that anyone has ever been helped by psychiatry,... You see a kid with HDDD or whatever it's called, and he takes Ritalin, and you take a look later and find out that his life has been destroyed. ”

- Susan Taylor

“ Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer. ”

- Thomas Szasz

“ Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. ”

- Robert Hughes

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

- Woody Allen

“ Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ 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. ”

- Unknown

“ The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveller with his patient. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution. ”

- Germaine Greer

“ The four-letter word for psychotherapy is 'talk'. ”

- Unknown

“ 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. ”

- Abraham Maslow

“ The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else's. ”

- Goodman Ace

“ Fortunately, analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. ”

- Karen Horney

“ Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. ”

- Tony Goldwyn

“ I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery. ”

- John Bradshaw

“ Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. ”

- Ken Livingstone
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