But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru?… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
People come to me with their heads held high and announce that they do not eat sugar anymore, as though they have… — Emily Luchetti Copy Share Image
I remember, after my first postpartum depression, I didn't know what had happened to me. I was stuck in this gray depression… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
If you're dating a man who you think might be "Mr. Right," if he a) got older, b) got a new job,… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
I, quite literally, woke up from a coma, from having tried to kill myself and it was very clear to me what… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
When children are allowed to help make family decisions, they tend to be much more supportive and happier with family life. Also… — Rudolf Dreikurs Copy Share Image
“Are you a psychiatrist?” “I don’t think so.” He shuffles forward, heading towards a side bay that, as I approach it, turns… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A number of holistic and complementary medical doctors in the US, from general practitioners to psychiatrists, are using maca with a variety… — Chris Kilham Copy Share Image
Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When we look back in time and study old cultures and people, we are impressed that death has always been distasteful to… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you that you might be delusional?' That's what the psychiatrist said, but I think he's wrong. There's… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis… — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I just invite people to share a secret with me. It's not like I'm a psychiatrist who's going to react to it… — Frank Warren Copy Share Image
The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took… — Morag Joss Copy Share Image
...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
..why is it that in problematic situations almost everyone resorts to axioms and societal remedies that in actuality almost nobody believes in?...ask… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A comedian is simply a different kind of therapist. A comedian is a psychologist and a psychiatrist rolled into one. Except I… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
A psychiatrist who professes to be a healer of souls, but who keeps people asleep, treats them for waking up, and drugs… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
