Psychiatry Quotes

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

Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. ...

For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can func...

I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came dow...

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

Toni hears voices," said Trapp. "But who is this Dr. Ellsworth to tell her she's a schizophrenic? Ma...

Of course. A new consciousness - I that that is the word,' said the old man after he had thought a m...

I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, u...

I can't see the logic in medicating a grieving person like there was something wrong with her, and y...

Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really l...

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

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

The uncomfortable, as well as the miraculous, fact about the human mind is how it varies from indivi...

A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money.

Equally serious is the complaint that psychoanalysis as a medical practice is a form of oppressive s...

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living and a psychot...

Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise conc...

The ethics of psychiatric therapy is the very negation of the ethics of political liberty. The forme...

The medical profession's classic prescription for coping with such predicaments, Primum non nocere (...

The cruelty intrinsic to the workhouse system was excused by the need to discourage idleness, much a...

The young and the old are defenseless against relatives who want to get rid of them by casting them ...

A vast amount of psychiatric effort has been, and continues to be, devoted to legal and quasi-legal ...

The principal differences between law and science are as follows:1. In the administration of the law...

The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did b...

What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced socie...

Wilhelm Reich identified "armor" as the sum total of typical character attitudes, which an individua...

Those modern analysts they charge so much! In my day for five marks Freud himself would treat you....

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

I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the present can I act. ...

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Statistics say that a range of mental disorders affects more than one in four Americans in any given...

Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?