Quotes About Psychiatric Medicine

#1. Anyone can look through my sketchbooks as long as they don't have a background in psychiatric medicine.

Chris Riddell

#2. But it seemed as if all psychiatric medicine was aimed only at the symptoms. Mute the paranoia. Calm the rage. Raise the endorphins. Underneath, the mysteries continued, unchanged. Underneath, somewhere in the chemistry of her brain, there was something that could not be reached.

Jerry Pinto

#3. I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.

Patch Adams

#4. Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a given moment in history, categories which are continually shifting and being named or renamed.

Siri Hustvedt

#5. Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the first that was ever written.

Joseph Addison

#6. A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.

William Baldwin

#7. People who foster dependence on illicit drugs such as heroin are regarded among the most unscrupulous pariahs of modern civilisation. In contrast, pushers of licit drugs tend to be viewed as altruistically motivated purveyors of social good.

John Braithwaite

#8. Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.

Thomas Szasz

#9. In America, we met this guy who'd been in the army. He'd been over in the Iraq war. He said that our CD helped him get through a hard time in the Iraq war. It's amazing to know that we helped him in some way. It's definitely cool.

Mattew Nicholls

#10. A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it.

Charles Dickens

#11. It only looks like such a mess because it's not over yet.

Andrea Randall

#12. If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.

Melinda Gates

#13. The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

Kate Millett

#14. Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience.

Arnost Lustig

#15. I think the penalties are grossly unfair. I think it's borderline shameful.

Matt Kenseth

#16. We've backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with you for a minute. I'm going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.

James Mattis