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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. -- Laurence J. Peter
Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years. -- Thomas Szasz
Psychiatry causes so much death -- Kate Millett
Psychiatry causes so much death. -- Kate Millett
Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy. -- Leonard Roy Frank
Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse. -- Thomas Szasz
Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches. -- Sigmund Freud
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. -- Alfred Hitchcock
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
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
Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is. -- Tom Cruise
Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning. -- Irvin D. Yalom
According to the British Journal of Psychiatry, marijuana can cause panic attacks. I don't know . . . The only time I have ever seen a marijuana user look panicky is when they are out of marijuana. -- Jay Leno
Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich. -- Chris Cleave
Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but it cannot--despite the pretensions and protestations of psichiatrists--be both. -- Thomas Szasz
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
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. -- Thomas Szasz
As recently as 1975, a basic American psychiatry textbook estimated that the frequency of all forms of incest as one case per million. [James Henderson, "Incest", in A. M. Freedman, H.I. Kaplan and B.J. Sadock, eds., Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 2nd ed. 1975 p. 1532.] -- Judith Lewis Herman
The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient. -- R. D. Laing
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness -- Michel Foucault
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. -- Carl Jung
The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered. -- Malcolm Rogers
I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery. -- John Bradshaw
The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness. -- Karl Kraus
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet. -- Rodney Dangerfield
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. -- Sigmund Freud
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
Through the miracles of modern medicine George Burns still chases pretty girls, and through the miracle of modern psychiatry he intends to find out why! -- Frank Welker
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. -- Allen Frances
I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us. -- Gore Vidal
Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise. -- Michel Foucault
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them. -- Charles Horton Cooley
Those modern analysts, they charge so much! In my day, for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables. -- Woody Allen
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the intellectual expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-medical jargon that parodies the concepts of science. The social style conforms to the political expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-liberal social movement that parodies the ideals of freedom and rationality. -- Thomas Szasz
Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ. -- Alice Weaver Flaherty
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. -- Henry A. Kissinger
My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist. -- Ben Barnes
I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part. -- Kirstie Alley
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
The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and it's only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you. -- Kate Millett
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
Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof. -- Kate Millett
What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put on as rigorous a level as psychopharmacology. -- Eric Kandel
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. -- Robert Klein
I trained in psychiatry in the 1970s, and much of our training was about what was then psychoanalytic theory, with a little bit of theory from Jungian psychology and a few other places. -- Thomas R. Insel
My philosophy is really based on humility. I don't think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is clinical neuroscience, based on a much deeper understanding of the brain. -- Thomas R. Insel
There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, you know, Superman's X-ray vision into the soul. One of the reasons I left psychiatry is that I didn't believe that. -- Charles Krauthammer
I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust. -- Alice Braga
But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school. -- Robert Jay Lifton
I've had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months - it's sort of like getting your oil checked - I ask, 'I'm not an actual narcissist, am I?' The learned men of psychiatry assure me that I meet none of the medical criteria. -- Rob Lowe
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself. -- Johan Huizinga
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. -- Robert Jay Lifton
psychiatry is a dirty mirror ... -- Anne Sexton
The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball. -- Ron Luciano
I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession. -- Rooney Mara
Since when did psychiatry become one big, fat Myspace survey? -- Nenia Campbell
After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles. -- Morton Feldman
Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished. -- Thomas Szasz
It's funny - people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and THEY go to CHURCH... -- John Malkovich
Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer. -- Thomas Harris
I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books! -- George W. Crane
Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry. -- Ed Koch
Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release. -- Gordon Allport
Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man. -- Erich Fromm
I think that one of the things that has happened is that psychiatry has become the religion of liberalism. -- Peter Breggin
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
The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime. -- J. G. Ballard
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
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 tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome. -- Antonin Artaud
The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the soul. -- R. D. Laing
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. -- Thomas Szasz
it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry. -- Phyllis Bottome
I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to the category of pseudo-science. -- Thomas Szasz
Everybody believes in psychiatry it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof. -- Kate Millett
I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human. -- Jean Vanier
Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who needs a psychiatrist must be crazy. -- Harry Segall
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. -- Richard Bentall
The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers for arousing false memories of childhoood sexual abuse. -- Martin Gardner
Only in psychiatry is the existence of physical disease determined by APA presidential proclamations, by committee decisions, and even, by a vote of the members of APA, not to mention the courts. -- Peter Breggin
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. -- Harold Rosenberg
Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of it. The human mind was easier to medicate than to comprehend. -- Robert Charles Wilson
I come from a liberal tradition. I'm Jewish. My dad was a liberal. What I've found is that people who see themselves as thoughtful, caring, educated and informed have swallowed psychiatry as the way. -- Peter Breggin
It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few. -- Sam Savage

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