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  • There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. -- Bernard Williams
  • A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. -- Joey Adams
  • Psychiatrist are like mind hookers. Give them 200 dollars and they just screw with your head. -- Christopher Titus
  • I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic. -- Dorothy Kilgallen
  • I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients. -- John Malkovich
  • One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. -- Muriel Spark
  • I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist. -- Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. -- Samuel Goldwyn
  • Psychiatrist to patient: Maybe you don't have a complex. Maybe you are inferior. -- Herbert Stein
  • Going to a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things a person can do. -- Peter Breggin
  • I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet. -- Rodney Dangerfield
  • My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too. -- Rodney Dangerfield
  • With me, nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex every night. Now, we'll never see each other! -- Rodney Dangerfield
  • If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist. -- Ed Koch
  • A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. -- Jerome Lawrence
  • Psychiatrist and Auschwitz survivor, Viktor Frankl, stated, "...man is by no means merely a product of heredity and environment. There is a third element: decision. Man ultimately decides for himself! -- Alice A. Kemp
  • I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender. -- Rodney Dangerfield
  • Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever. -- Les Paul
  • I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. -- Antonin Artaud
  • We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist. -- Lesley-Anne Down
  • If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.' -- Ronnie Shakes
  • My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it. -- Amanda Bearse
  • I am convinced that nine out of every ten persons seeing a psychiatrist do not need one. They need someone who will love them with God's love...and they will get well. -- Paul Tournier
  • I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence. -- Mordecai Richler
  • If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime, and driving it underground, we ought to recognize it for what it is: it's a mental illness, it's a psychiatric condition which ought to be treated sympathetically by psychiatrists and social workers. -- Tommy Douglas
  • It is said that the fear of public speaking is a fear greater than death for most people. According to psychiatrists, the fear of public speaking is caused by the fear of ostracism, the fear of standing out, the fear of criticism, the fear of ridicule, the fear of being an outcast. THE FEAR OF BEING DIFFERENT PREVENTS MOST PEOPLE FROM SEEKING NEW WAYS TO SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • You're not a nutcase if you want to go see a psychiatrist. -- Mike Wallace
  • Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not. -- Arnold H. Glasow
  • Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. -- J. G. Ballard
  • Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance. -- John Malkovich
  • I'm so glad I didn't become a doctor, because I do more than any doctor can do. I am an administrator, a CEO, doctor, psychiatrist, an activist, a campaign funder. I think I did well. -- Dikembe Mutombo
  • I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist well versed in using lithium and knowledgeable about my illness, and who was also an excellent psychotherapist. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not. -- Dale Archer
  • According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer in the American Southwest, who communicates with spirits from a world that I believe is far more loving and glorious than our own. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • I have, since the age of about 2, been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses. And I have, since the age of 10, when I was first taken to a mental hospital for evaluation and then referred to a psychiatrist for treatment, tried in various ways to overcome my anxiety. -- Scott Stossel
  • I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That's an enormous privilege. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something. -- Michael Haneke
  • If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat. -- Lewis Black
  • My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took vacation jobs there as a nursing assistant. So I did get to see mental illness, but I don't remember conversations about mental conditions. My father was a cheerful man with a robust attitude to such things. -- Morag Joss
  • The only thing I know is that no one ever sat in a therapist's or a psychiatrist's room saying, 'My parents just loved me too much.' The only thing you can do is love them and be around. Kids don't really care what your car is like or how big their house is. All they really care about is that you are around. -- James Corden
  • I had to work with a psychiatrist. -- Felix Baumgartner
  • Songwriting is the cheapest psychiatrist I know. -- Billy Joe Shaver
  • I always wanted to be a psychiatrist. -- Ester Dean
  • I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist. -- Ray Bradbury
  • One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away. -- Saul Bellow
  • No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist. -- Eric Berne
  • If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist. -- Lisa Unger
  • Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist's couch. -- John Wayne
  • The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient. -- R. D. Laing
  • Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man; good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist -- Eric Idle
  • If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist. -- Tamara Mellon
  • My psychiatrist said I had charisma so at least I'm certified -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
  • My psychiatrist once said to me, 'Maybe life isn't for everyone'. -- Oscar Levant
  • I would say I see myself as a psychiatrist in remission. -- Charles Krauthammer
  • A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money. -- Sylvia Plath
  • My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him. -- Jim Carrey
  • My DVD cellophane was put on by a psychiatrist. It was shrink-wrapped. -- Tim Vine
  • Mystification is the psychiatrist's defense against the danger of being found out. -- Leonard Roy Frank
  • Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • If I didn't play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist. -- Arthur Ashe
  • I think people who go to a psychiatrist ought to have their heads examined. -- Jane Ace
  • A man goes to a psychiatrist. "Nobody listens to me!" The doctor says, "Next!" -- Henny Youngman
  • That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist. -- Tanya Tucker
  • My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
  • Anyone living in Los Angeles who says they don't need a psychiatrist, needs a psychiatrist. -- Kathy Lette
  • What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch. -- Patti Page
  • You have to be a psychiatrist too, especially in fashion. A psychologist and a psychiatrist together. -- Carolina Herrera
  • My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch. -- Michael Caine
  • Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions. -- John Gierach
  • A mental healer may be a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist may or may not be a mental healer. -- R. D. Laing
  • Easiest job in the world of course, Australian psychiatrist, "Gday Gday how you doing no worries next". -- Milton Jones
  • God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing. -- Thomas Keating
  • A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. -- Joey Lauren Adams
  • I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis. -- Diane Keaton
  • The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting. -- Mason Cooley
  • An editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself-a good editor will make your book better. -- Guy Kawasaki
  • ...science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine." -- George Howe Colt
  • When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured em of all their daydreams and delusions. -- Rudolf Wanderone
  • The prison psychiatrist asked me if I thought sex was dirty. I told him only when it's done right. -- Woody Allen
  • Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist. -- Alice Neel
  • .. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive -- Les Paul
  • If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist -- Ray Davies
  • What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield
  • Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force. -- Ron Suskind
  • If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger. -- Dennis Miller
  • If you don't know what sex is before you're 21 you're going to have a problem and should go to your psychiatrist. -- Ozzy Osbourne
  • I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state? -- Fay Weldon
  • My psychiatrist prescribed a game of golf as an antidote to the feelings of euphoria I experience from time to time. -- Bruce Lansky
  • 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
  • An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist. -- David Greenberg
  • If someone tells you you're crazy enough times, eventually it becomes true. It's that old psychiatrist's joke: insanity's all in your head. -- Madeleine Roux
  • I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don't need it. It all comes out onstage. -- Joan Rivers
  • My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side. -- Babatunde Adebimpe
  • I definitely want to thank my doctor, Dr. Sandy, um, my psychiatrist, she really helped me relax a lot, thank you so much. -- Metta World Peace
  • Last week I told my psychiatrist, 'I keep thinking about suicide', and he told me from now I have to pay in advance. -- Rodney Dangerfield
  • A man goes to a psychiatrist. The doctor says, "You're crazy" The man says, "I want a second opinion!" "Okay, you're ugly too!" -- Henny Youngman
  • Her imagination painted Georgie twenty years later, sitting in leg irons before some Broken psychiatrist. "Well, you see, it all started with bubbles... -- Ilona Andrews
  • I do not believe that a dog can be cured by a psychiatrist, but I think some owners could be helped by one. -- Barbara Woodhouse
  • My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side. -- Babatunde Adebimpe
  • A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient. -- Viktor E. Frankl
  • I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him. -- Antonin Artaud
  • Remember that in 1993 a company with a bad Web site needed an engineer. Today, a company with a bad Web site needs a psychiatrist. -- Philip Greenspun
  • I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing. -- Francis Ford Coppola
  • I know that things get worse before they get better because that's what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big. -- Stephen Chbosky
  • When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world. -- Stevie Wonder
  • When people come and visit me and have a hat made, it's a little bit like visiting a psychiatrist, but they don't actually realize that. -- Philip Treacy
  • All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life being his own psychiatrist. -- Charles Beaumont
  • My grandmother was a psychiatrist and possibly the ultimate of all skeptics. But even she couldn't explain the strange noises we so often heard in the attic. -- Jennifer McMahon
  • For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when it hurts. It's supposed to. (46) -- Keith Ablow
  • I've never been to a psychiatrist so have never gotten to the point where I could be formally diagnosed with any disorder. But I definitely have anxiety. -- Autre Ne Veut
  • If a psychiatrist would analyze [the lyrics], I'm sure they'd come up with something interesting. I really don't try to twist them. I don't want to slash things. -- Victoria Legrand
  • I like understanding what's underneath, what's really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that. -- Michelle Pfeiffer
  • I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV. -- Ben Carson
  • I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV. -- Ben Carson
  • After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression. -- Andy Behrman
  • The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality. -- Carl Jung
  • A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist - moving an audience through a movie ... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark. -- Gordon Willis
  • If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it. -- Jill Paton Walsh
  • I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed. -- James Thurber
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