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Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next. -- Victoria Abril
Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War... -- J. G. Ballard
Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication. -- Trisha Goddard
Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check 3 friends. If they are okay, you're it. -- Henny Youngman
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer. -- Carl Jung
Psychotherapy is a practice that many different professional disciplines engage. Psychiatrists are also medical doctors and increasingly offer medication and do less and less actual therapy. -- Jed Diamond
Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic "causes" of these "conditions"? -- Thomas Szasz
There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists. -- Nicole Kidman
Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have. -- Harvey Penick
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. -- Dario Argento
I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part. -- Kirstie Alley
In London, 'Equus' caused a sensation because it displayed cruelty to horses; in New York, because it allegedly displayed cruelty to psychiatrists. -- Peter Shaffer
Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category. -- Robert Jay Lifton
Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists. -- Eric Schlosser
Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time. -- Florence King
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
The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience. -- Dario Argento
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
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy. -- Jason Epstein
The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves. -- Henry Reed
Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either. -- John Irving
So we had psychiatrists and counselors and therapists around the set regularly, especially for those scenes in which Jason would be dealing with a patient to make sure we were doing it all appropriately. -- Alan Thicke
In total, I was diagnosed with depression by eight psychotherapists and psychiatrists over a period of thirteen years. Diagnosed wrong. Absolutely wrong. My accurate diagnosis was manic depression, or what we call bipolar disorder today. -- Andy Behrman
My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that? -- Andy Kaufman
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
When I visited Guantanamo Bay several years ago, I met a team of psychiatrists treating the detainees. When I asked how they distinguished between, say, schizophrenia or bipolarity and a bedrock religious commitment to holy war, they couldn't answer. -- Monica Crowley
The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of dealing, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than psychiatrists. The story, you see, will get you through. -- Octavia E. Butler
Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why. -- Pedro Almodovar
Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices. -- Theodore Dalrymple
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. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction. -- J. G. Ballard
Passion makes most psychiatrists nervous -- Joseph Campbell
Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid. -- Erica Jong
I have no hang-ups. I don't have to go to psychiatrists. -- Dan Lauria
If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love. -- Timothy Leary
I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle. -- Steven Morrissey
In Greece we're too poor to go to psychiatrists -- we have friends instead. -- Melina Mercouri
I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists. -- Vladimir Nabokov
I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me. -- Thomas Harris
The psychiatrists say that everybody should have a hobby. The hobby I recommend is advertising -- David Ogilvy
Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic. -- R. D. Laing
A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself. -- Fred Allen
I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists -- Sylvia Plath
As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists. -- Gilles Deleuze
It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide. -- Jodi Picoult
No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest. -- Nan Goldin
The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness. -- Karl Kraus
Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category. -- Robert Jay Lifton
What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession. -- R. D. Laing
If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility -- Brock Chisholm
Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the unclean person. -- Thomas Szasz
Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle. -- Marya Mannes
If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place. -- Aldous Huxley
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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
The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors. -- Karl Kraus
Linde's Danger to Self is a warm, candid and appealing account of being an emergency room psychiatrist. Linde captures the non-conformist, hard-boiled style of the psychiatrists who work in this setting. -- Tanya Luhrmann
An international team of psychiatrists has flown to Redmond, WA in an attempt to discover exactly what makes Bill Gates tick. And, more especially, what makes him go cuckoo every half hour. -- David Pogue
Everybody has anger or regret in them one way or another. They all try different things to get it out. Some people go to psychiatrists. Some paint pictures. Some people talk it out. -- Sylvester Stallone
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The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a "wholesome personality" are inevitably their own. -- Joel Henry Hildebrand

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