Top 100 Quotes About Psychiatry
#1. The institutions of psychiatry, law enforcement, and goverment have proved that no matter what our resources, you cannot reliable control the conduct of CRAZY PEOPLE. It is not fair, but it is so
Gavin De Becker
#2. I don't like psychiatrists," Alecto told her. "Not because they don't think I'm real, but because they have no idea what they're doing.
Rebecca McNutt
#3. Grief is NOT a mental illness or an emotional disorder. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never experienced it for themselves.
Rebecca McNutt
#4. Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J. Peter
#5. The old joke is that psychiatrists are doctors who can't stand the sight of blood. Maybe they can't stand it, but if they work where I work, they damn well better get used to it.
At least surgeons and prizefighters get to wear gloves
Mike Bartos
#6. The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Henry A. Kissinger
#7. I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
Rodney Dangerfield
#8. I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read.
Raymond Chandler
#9. The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball.
Ron Luciano
#10. They had taken me to an exhibit called 'Psychiatry: Industry of Death' on Hollywood Boulevard, where a Scientologist told me psychiatrists set up the Holocaust. I feared I was being brain-washed. And then I lost it - big time.
John Sweeney
#11. He tried to sleep, but his head was filled with the faces of lunatics, their palsied hands, their shattered eyes.
Sebastian Faulks
#12. The Perspectives of Psychiatry, Paul R. McHugh and Phillip R. Slavney identify four approaches to a suffering person.
Joshua Wolf Shenk
#13. The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness
Michel Foucault
#14. Going to a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things a person can do.
Peter Breggin
#15. The fatal weakness of most psychiatric historiographies lies in the historians' failure to give sufficient weight to the role of coercion in psychiatry and to acknowledge that mad-doctoring had nothing to do with healing.
Thomas Szasz
#16. The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#17. 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.
Thomas Szasz
#18. But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.
Robert Jay Lifton
#19. My philosophy is really based on humility. I don't think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is clinical neuroscience, based on a much deeper understanding of the brain.
Thomas R. Insel
#20. The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.
Martin Seligman
#21. A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.
Antonin Artaud
#22. 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.
Mico Monsalve
#23. 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!
Frank Welker
#24. Unlike 'mere' medical or physical disorders, mental disorders are not just problems. If successfully navigated, they can also present opportunities. Simply acknowledging this can empower people to heal themselves and, much more than that, to grow from their experiences.
Neel Burton
#25. Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Alfred Hitchcock
#26. LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.
Stanislav Grof
#27. My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.
Ben Barnes
#28. I mention a paradox of psychiatry: mental illness is recognized by the patient's distorted thoughts, but treatment is largely indifferent to their content. (104)
Michael Greenberg
#29. Psychiatry is a pseudoscience ... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do ... Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.
Tom Cruise
#30. Then the weeks rolled by in a sinister psych ward haze filled with white-coated orderlies and rocking whack-job patients torn straight from some old Jack Nicholson film, all anti-psychotic meds and padded lonely cells ...
Shannon Celebi
#31. Your imaginary friend isn't the problem, Amanda. The problem is that you don't seem to have any real friends.
Rebecca McNutt
#32. A degree in psychiatry merely qualifies one to begin learning about the intricacies and foibles of the human personality.
Dan Simmons
#33. It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.
Sam Savage
#34. All neurotics seek the religious
Carl Jung
#35. Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry ... and he's a mass murderer.
Thomas Harris
#36. Psychiatrists urge me to take my tranquilizers. When I don't they become agitated. I take their pills to calm them down.
Brian Spellman
#37. Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the soul.
R.D. Laing
#39. 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.
Manu Joseph
#40. Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.
Ed Koch
#41. The maladies of the spirit alone, in abstracto, that is, error and sin, can be called diseases of the mind only per analogiam. They come not within the jurisdiction of the physician, but that of the teacher or clergyman, who again are called physicians of the mind only per analogiam.
Ernst Von Feuchtersleben
#42. Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who needs a psychiatrist must be crazy.
Harry Segall
#43. I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession.
Rooney Mara
#44. Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
C. G. Jung
#45. Ossip, I think you are a humbug ... you are not even a doctor. But you are funny. Your notion of a humanity universally putting out the tongue and taking the pill from pole to pole at the bidding of a few solemn jokers is worthy of the prophet ...
Joseph Conrad
#46. You think she's got a personality disorder?"
"No, she's just a nasty bitch. An unpleasant personality isn't a medical condition. Just a symptom of not being slapped around the head enough.
Karen Traviss
#47. Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but it cannot
despite the pretensions and protestations of psichiatrists
be both.
Thomas Szasz
#48. Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.
Robert Klein
#49. I think, when it comes to psychiatry, that a lot of people are overmedicated. I think when it comes to ECT a lot of people go through too much. I think there's a lot of guesswork in psychiatry.
Andy Behrman
#50. The maliciousness of psychiatry is that it promotes itself as a medical discipline, although it is actually only part of the state authority.24 Therein
Thomas Szasz
#51. name. It was truly a revolution in psychiatry, and a gold rush for drug companies, who suddenly had hundreds of new disorders they could invent medications for, millions of new patients they could treat. "The
Jon Ronson
#52. Talking to yourself is okay. Answering back is risky.
Brian Spellman
#53. Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
Thomas Szasz
#54. I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.
Kirstie Alley
#55. I can't answer you in a nutshell. We wouldn't fit unless we saw the same shrink.
Brian Spellman
#56. I'm a practicing psychiatrist and I think that I really believe in the advances of psychiatry. Our diagnoses are more precise.
Jonathan Michel Metzl
#58. Because the problem with psychiatry is that you mostly study people who aren't doing so well, whereas if you spent a little more time studying people who are doing very well, it might give you some good ideas to help the ones who are not.
Francois Lelord
#59. A British Institute of Psychiatry study revealed that reading digital messages while performing another creative task decreases your IQ in the moment by 10 points. This decrease is the same as not sleeping for 36 hours - more than twice the impact of smoking marijuana.
Erik Qualman
#60. The cruelty intrinsic to the workhouse system was excused by the need to discourage idleness, much as the malice intrinsic to the mental hospital system has been excused by the need to provide treatment.
Thomas Szasz
#61. But this "progress" in psychiatry had gone hand in hand with what, to many, seemed to be the pathologising of perfectly ordinary human weirdness.
Sarah Wise
#62. What's more insane? Hearing imaginary voices? Or not hearing the real ones?
Forrest Carr
#63. Psychiatry is all biological and all social. There is no mental function without brain and social context. To ask how much of mind is biological and how much social is as meaningless as to ask how much of the area of a rectangle is due to its width and how much to its height
Leon Eisenberg
#64. People... people who NEED people, are the yuckiest people in the world.
G.S. Johnston
#65. The child psychologist's clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where creativity goes to drown.
Rebecca McNutt
#66. Our brains are embodied - much of the problem with the debate over addiction and psychiatry more generally is a refusal to accept this and our ongoing need to see "physical," "neurological," and "psychological" as completely distinct.
Maia Szalavitz
#67. 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.
Mignon McLaughlin
#68. The young and the old are defenseless against relatives who want to get rid of them by casting them in the role of mental patient,and against psychiatrists whose livelihood depends on defining them as mentally ill.
Thomas Szasz
#70. It is nothing but a kind of a microcosmos of communism - all that psychiatry', rumbled Pnin ... 'Why not leave their private sorrow to people? Is sorrow not, one asks, the only thing in the world people really possess?
Vladimir Nabokov
#71. Toni hears voices," said Trapp. "But who is this Dr. Ellsworth to tell her she's a schizophrenic? Maybe she just perceives better than the rest of us. Maybe the voices she hears are just uncommunicated ideas, floating free.
Louis Sachar
#72. Conventional psychiatry has emphasized the genetic roots of psychosis based on the claim that twin and other studies show that schizophrenia is 80% heritable, which means that 80% of the cause is genetic.
Richard Bentall
#73. The self-esteem of psychiatry got very low as a result of it. It had never really been accepted as part of medicine because the diagnoses were so unreliable, and the Rosenhan experiment confirmed it." Spitzer's
Jon Ronson
#74. The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.
Malcolm Rogers
#76. DSM-IV is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by medicine in general. Insiders know it is more a political than scientific document ... DSM-IV has become a bible and a money making bestseller - its major failings notwithstanding.
Loren Mosher
#77. So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth) so that the madman can always be considered the Other, never the Self mental illness will remain an easily exploitable concept, and Coercive Psychiatry a flourishing institution.
Thomas Szasz
#78. Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.
Chris Cleave
#79. One of the fundamental truths of psychiatry was that sometimes you had to leave a patient who needed you. She
Kristin Hannah
#80. I never read Freud. I've never been attracted to anything he has said, and I think he's started a lot of nonsense with psychiatry and that business. I don't think psychiatry can help or has helped anybody. I think it's a big fraud (pun not intended) on the public.
Bob Dylan
#81. I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.
Alice Braga
#82. He'd built his career on the fallacy of clear boundaries between the material and the imagined, and the idea that the difference mattered.
Katherine Lampe
#83. To have been able to write the books I wanted to write, on demanding subjects like war and the history of psychiatry, and for them to have sold in the numbers they have - and then go around saying: 'Actually, I'd also like to have won the Costa Book of the Year?' That would be ridiculous.
Sebastian Faulks
#84. They safely cured the world of sadness, wiser the Pfizer for it?
Brian Spellman
#85. The irony of seeking a shrink: they are successful in shrinking your brain but unfortunately they also make your wallet shrink.
Mico Monsalve
#86. I myself must also say I believe it is true that in the end humanitarianism will triumph; only I fear that at the same time the world will be one big hospital and each person will be the other person's humane keeper.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#87. Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.
Erica Jong
#88. There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.
Allen Frances
#89. She thought she brought a gift of compassion for those exhausted souls who had not received a chest portion from the people who raised them. If compassion and therapy did not work, she could always send her patients to the local pharmacy for drugs.
Pat Conroy
#90. I trained in psychiatry in the 1970s, and much of our training was about what was then psychoanalytic theory, with a little bit of theory from Jungian psychology and a few other places.
Thomas R. Insel
#91. The destructive impact of psychiatry upon our civilization has been given far too little attention, and the role of psychiatry in Nazi Germany almost no attention. It is entirely possible that without psychiatry the holocaust could never have taken place.
Peter Breggin
#92. They would try to make me into a moron who liked television and new cars and frozen food. Don't you understand? Psychiatry is worse than communism. I refuse to be brainwashed. I won't be a robot!
John Kennedy Toole
#93. Neither he [Ferenczi] nor Freud believed that a person should be exempted from legal punishment
or worse, that he should be punished by compulsory psychiatric "treatments"
because of psychoanalytic information about him. In the light of current thought, this is a startling and sobering fact.
Thomas Szasz
#94. If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.
Harry Stack Sullivan
#95. 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.
Vironika Tugaleva
#96. Visions and voices and fear and despair cannot be captured by CT scan or measured in the amplitude of EKG waves. Try as we might, we simply cannot predict which of our patients will kill themselves, which will murder their children, and which will leave the hospital healed, never to return.
Christine Montross
#97. Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.
Ross Macdonald
#98. You don't love me.. Believe me! You don't love anyone. How could you? And no one loves you. How could they? Except me, it's only because I love you that I'm telling you all this. I Love you.. R. D. Laing.
R.D. Laing
#99. According to the British Journal of Psychiatry, marijuana can cause panic attacks. I don't know ... The only time I have ever seen a marijuana user look panicky is when they are out of marijuana.
Jay Leno
