Going to a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things a person can do. — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Being Bi polar there are times I love my mind and other times it hates me. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist. — Ben Barnes Copy Share Image
According to the British Journal of Psychiatry, marijuana can cause panic attacks. I don't know . . . The only time I… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.” — Kevin Alan Lee Copy Share Image
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… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
The greatest communication barrier known to man is the lack of the common core of experience Whens the last time you had… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“The irony of seeking a shrink: they are successful in shrinking your brain but unfortunately they also make your wallet shrink.” — Mico Monsalve Copy Share Image
So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth) so that the madman can always… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I've had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months - it's sort of like getting your oil checked -… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
“ It's a ridiculous profession and it's getting worse. It's becoming almost like palm reading or phrenology. It's been relegated to pop… — Ian Shoales Copy Share Image
But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
“For too long a time--for half a century, in fact--psychiatry tried to interpret the human mind merely as a mechanism, and consequently… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Identity confusion is defined by the SCID-D as a subjective feeling of uncertainty, puzzlement, or conflict about one's own identity. Patients who… — Marlene Steinberg Copy Share Image
Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“The implication that the change in nomenclature from “Multiple Personality Disorder” to “Dissociative Identity Disorder” means the condition has been repudiated and… — Richard P. Kluft Copy Share Image
“Somehow the disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians. The flamboyance of the multiple, her intelligence and… — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
The relation of eugenics to British psychiatry bears examination. The primary controlling body for psychiatry in England is the British National Association… — Jim Keith Copy Share Image
“It was Freud's ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his time. In his early investigations, he… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“It’s…The only way I can get on with my life is by forgetting what went on before. Dave used to tell me… — Olga Núñez Miret Copy Share Image
Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
