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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
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
A degree in psychiatry merely qualifies one to begin learning about the intricacies and foibles of the human personality.
— Dan Simmons
Since when did psychiatry become one big, fat Myspace survey?
— Nenia Campbell
Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much.
— Joyce Rachelle
Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy.
— Leonard Roy Frank
Your imaginary friend isn't the problem, Amanda. The problem is that you don't seem to have any real friends.
— Rebecca McNutt
Going to a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things a person can do.
— Peter Breggin
A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money.
— Sylvia Plath
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
— Laurence J. Peter
One of the fundamental truths of psychiatry was that sometimes you had to leave a patient who needed you. She
— Kristin Hannah
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
— Thomas Szasz
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
Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment.
— American Psychiatric Association
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
— Alfred Hitchcock
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness
— Michel Foucault
I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.
— Kirstie Alley
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
— Rodney Dangerfield
The Perspectives of Psychiatry, Paul R. McHugh and Phillip R. Slavney identify four approaches to a suffering person.
— Joshua Wolf Shenk
All neurotics seek the religious
— Carl Jung
Grief is NOT a mental illness or an emotional disorder. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never experienced it for themselves.
— Rebecca McNutt
Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.
— Ed Koch
Talking to yourself is okay. Answering back is risky.
— Brian Spellman
The irony of seeking a shrink: they are successful in shrinking your brain but unfortunately they also make your wallet shrink.
— Mico Monsalve
If the mind fits, shrink it.
— Brian Spellman
I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.
— Harry Stack Sullivan
Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.
— Sigmund Freud
My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
— Sigmund Freud
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
Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines.
— Jon Ronson
Psychiatry causes so much death.
— Kate Millett
Sanity is over-rated. It lacks color.
— Forrest Carr
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
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
— C. G. Jung
The child psychologist's clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where creativity goes to drown.
— Rebecca McNutt
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[A]ll mental disorders are in some sense passionate convictions about the situation of the self in the world.
— Alan A. Stone
Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry ... and he's a mass murderer.
— Thomas Harris
If you doubt your sanity, is that proof?
— James Qualls
I had sent her to four consecutive psychiatrists, and not one of them had gotten me sober.
— Alcoholics Anonymous
Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.
— Alice Weaver Flaherty
Psychiatrists urge me to take my tranquilizers. When I don't they become agitated. I take their pills to calm them down.
— Brian Spellman
He tried to sleep, but his head was filled with the faces of lunatics, their palsied hands, their shattered eyes.
— Sebastian Faulks
Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.
— Thomas Szasz
Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.
— Thomas Harris
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
Miracles occur in psychoanalysis as seldom as anywhere else.
— Karen Horney
They safely cured the world of sadness, wiser the Pfizer for it?
— Brian Spellman
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
— Henry A. Kissinger
The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball.
— Ron Luciano
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
Sometimes I get so sad that it jest sounds good.
— Abbi Glines
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
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[M]an does not live by welfare alone.
— Viktor E. Frankl
My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.
— Malcolm Rogers
I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!""An exact science?!"
"Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars! — Charles M. Schulz
Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience
— Christopher Marshall
Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.
— Erich Fromm
I've often wondered which, psychiatry or religion, has done more damage. Between them, they about owned it all.
— William Brinkley
Psychiatry is a dirty mirror ...
— Anne Sexton
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
