LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
“What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.” — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“It is the sad privilege of medicine, and especially that of psychiatry, to ever witness the weaknesses of human nature and the… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Generally speaking, psychiatry is concerned with the treatment of neuroses, with patients who are aware of their illness and wish to be… — Rennie Airth Copy Share Image
Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful… — Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Copy Share Image
“You must have been working very hard here, with so few distractions.” Mary’s eyes darkened and she looked away. “Not quite as… — Olga Núñez Miret Copy Share Image
They had taken me to an exhibit called 'Psychiatry: Industry of Death' on Hollywood Boulevard, where a Scientologist told me psychiatrists set… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
“As recently as 1975, a basic American psychiatry textbook estimated that the frequency of all forms of incest as one case per… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“The maladies of the spirit alone, in abstracto, that is, error and sin, can be called diseases of the mind only per… — Ernst Von Feuchtersleben Copy Share Image
Are you seeing a psychiatrist?' as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“…it seemed to Kirsch that the most reliable guide to the mental landscape of a patient was the patient himself. He was… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
All our anxieties relate to time. The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“A refusal on the part of psychiatrists and therapists to validate the horrors of their patients' tortured past implies a refusal to… — Felicity De Zulueta Copy Share Image
“Under the guise of helping the sick, oppressed and hopeless, psychiatry is paving the way for authoritarian governments to suppress a whole… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“There are a range of useful and illuminating analyses of the media construction of organised abuse as it became front-page news in… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“I finally saw the whole conspiracy standing as plain as an elephant in the street; also the conspiracy was admitted to me… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Despite what you might think, NORMAL people do NOT cause problems, misfortunes, conflicts, distress or accidents. And when they do, they CAN… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“The anti-psychiatrists held various, sometimes conflicting views but one particular line of reasoning is attributable to all of them—they all pitched their… — Zbigniew Kotowicz Copy Share Image
“What do you think of Cain’s affirmations?” “He never told a lie. If he says that God talks to him, he is… — Olga Núñez Miret Copy Share Image
Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry. — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
“Leave him with his God. I’m sure He’s as hard and unforgiving as Cain is. I don’t want to know about Cain’s… — Olga Núñez Miret Copy Share Image
“Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines.” — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“[P]eople who have ECT need to be prepared for some memories not returning - and for not being able to choose which… — Kitty Dukakis Copy Share Image
I practiced medicine up 'til now. I practice psychiatry. I shifted from different specialties. I started as a village doctor - community… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
When people meet others with mental illness it's hard to accept to understand and not judge its even harder for the person… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I think, when it comes to psychiatry, that a lot of people are overmedicated. I think when it comes to ECT a… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
“I’ve often wondered which, psychiatry or religion, has done more damage. Between them, they about owned it all.” — William Brinkley Copy Share Image
The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul. — Alexander Chase Copy Share Image
Serious people scare me especially the ones that look at you with a blank stare and say. And how does that make… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“But does psychological sophistication override a sense that some actions are just plain bad? How much of human behaviour, in the end,… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
“Believing in a non-existent unconscious simply reveals the not knowing about how the mind and our memory fundamentally works or who we… — Arne Klingenberg Copy Share Image
Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
![“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.]” quote by Judith Lewis Herman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/679/judith-lewis-herman-19218_child-rape_as-recently-as-1975-a-basic-american-psy_1650810.jpg)
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