Psychiatry Quotes
A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothingPsychiatry
Adams, Joey
It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius.
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Artaud, Antonin
1896-1948 French Theater Producer Actor Theorist
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.
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Artaud, Antonin
1896-1948 French Theater Producer Actor Theorist
Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
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Fowler, Gene
1890-1960 American Journalist Biographer
Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.
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Frame, Janet
1924 New Zealand Novelist Poet
It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.
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Freud, Sigmund
1856-1939 Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis
Half a psychiatrist s patients see him because they are married -- the other half because they re not.
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Glasgow, Arnold H.
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined.
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Goldwyn, Samuel
1882-1974 American Film Producer Founder MGM
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
Roses are red, violets are blue, I m schizophrenic, and so am I.
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Levant, Oscar
1906-1972 American Pianist Actor
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist s couch.
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Mcluhan, Marshall
1911-1980 Canadian Communications Theorist
If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjusted to the crazy scheme of things and spare yourself the humiliation of becoming a Christian Scientist. You can have your ego trimmed or removed, as you wish, just like a wart or bunion.
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Miller, Henry
1891-1980 American Author
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents shortcomings.
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Peter, Laurence J.
Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
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Reik, Theodor
1888-1969 Austrian Psychoanalyst
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart?
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Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
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Spark, Muriel
1918 British Novelist
A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergère and looks at the audience.
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Stockwood, Bishop Mervyn
American Bishop
The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I ve seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.
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Storr, Anthony
1920 British Psychiatrist
Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.
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Szasz, Thomas
1920 American Psychiatrist
Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it.
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Szasz, Thomas
1920 American Psychiatrist
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.
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Szasz, Thomas
1920 American Psychiatrist
The difference between a neurotic, a psychotic, and a psychiatrist. The neurotic builds castles in the sky, the psychotic lives in them and the psychiatrist collects the rent.
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You go to psychiatrist when your slightly cracked and keep going until you re completely broke.
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