Top 42 Kirsch Quotes
#1. To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.
Irving Kirsch
#2. So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.
Adam Kirsch
#4. Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.
Louise Slaughter
#5. When a man first awakens, it sometimes takes several moments before he starts thinking clearly."
"And here I thought it took several years, perhaps a lifetime for the average man's intellect to kick in.
Karen Marie Moning
#6. I am an actress of life, the world is my stage. Trained to fit in and yet I still fail.
Tina J. Richardson
#7. We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have never believed in them.
Jean Baudrillard
#8. Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
Irving Kirsch
#9. The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response.
Irving Kirsch
#10. The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul, and that every soul should have its own body.
Adam Kirsch
#11. Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word 'myth' only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.
Adam Kirsch
#12. If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.
Irving Kirsch
#13. There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
Irving Kirsch
#14. There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.
Irving Kirsch
#15. Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
Irving Kirsch
#16. I said (to Daniel Jones), 'You realise I'm always going to be The Guy From Savage Garden'. He said, 'How do you think I feel? I'm The Other One From Savage Garden!'
Darren Hayes
#17. Rache! Glad you're ... Tink loves a duck!" he said, wings clattering. "It stinks of sex in here. God, woman. I leave you alone for one night, and you're humping the ghost." - Jenks to Rachel
Kim Harrison
#18. Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that relapses are far less common when people are treated with psychotherapy.
Irving Kirsch
#19. Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, for those who do not respond to alternative forms of interventions.
Irving Kirsch
#20. There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
Stephen Fry
#21. Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.
Irving Kirsch
#22. If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.
Irving Kirsch
#23. It's always great to have two inspirations, one that has more of an editorial purpose and one for more of an everyday, wearable approach.
Olivia Palermo
#24. The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
Irving Kirsch
#25. I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.
Irving Kirsch
#26. Because sometimes, you have to fight for someone even when they're not in the game.
Libby Kirsch
#28. In the ensuing discussion at the Manila workshop, I compared the search for a responsible mine to the pursuit of a mythical beast that people believe in because they have heard stories of its existence, even though no one claims to have seen it.18
Stuart Kirsch
#29. Wherever you go at SXSW, there you are standing in line. Or watching other people stand in line.
Kara Swisher
#30. The one thing we do know is that the chemical imbalance theory - the theory that people get depressed when they don't have enough serotonin in their brain - we know that that's wrong.
Irving Kirsch
#31. The lesson Arendt drew was that a beautiful soul is not enough, for "it was precisely the soul for which life showed no consideration." To live fully and securely, every human being needs what Arendt calls "specificity," the social and political status that comes with full membership in a community.
Adam Kirsch
#32. One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
Irving Kirsch
#33. Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
Irving Kirsch
#34. With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.
Adam Kirsch
#35. Humility is in reality the opposite of self-deprecation. It is the grateful recognition that we are precious in God's eyes and that all we are is pure gift.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#36. You ask me why I write. You might as well ask me why I breathe. I need oxygen to feed my body and ink to feed my soul.
Bryce Main
#37. What we can do with these means (our own unassisted strength) is still very small compared to what we could do in acting in union with God himself, who created and ultimately controls all other forces.
Dallas Willard
#39. Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.
Irving Kirsch
#40. Antidepressants can have troubling side effects and are addictive for some people.
Irving Kirsch
#41. There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.
Irving Kirsch
#42. Then as now, demonization of the victim is the necessary precondition for genocide.
Jonathan Kirsch
