Psychiatry Quotes Page 2

My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.

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.

All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.

It's funny - people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and THEY go to CHURCH.

I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars!

The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball.

All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State.

This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.

The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.

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.

miracles occur in psychoanalysis as seldom as anywhere else.

Psychiatry is a dirty mirror.

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

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.

A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion

The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind.

No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain

Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

Are you seeing a psychiatrist?' as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years it was a compliment. It meant, 'One can plainly see you are sensitive, intense, and interesting, and therefore neurotic.' Only the dullest of clods trudged around without a neurosis.

LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes.

If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.

The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.

The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

There is no definition of a mental disorder. It's bullshit. I mean, you just can't define it.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

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.

In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of an acrobat - walking a tightrope over memory and speculation, instinct and theory, feeling and denial.

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.

A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.

The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.