The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“He'd built his career on the fallacy of clear boundaries between the material and the imagined, and the idea that the difference… — Katherine Lampe Copy Share Image
Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release. — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Honestly I've rode the razors edge a lot of times. Finger on the trigger bullet in the chamber muzzle in my mouth.… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that… — Harry Segall Copy Share Image
“No conceptually regimented and normatively informed theory of mental disorder can be devised without taking philosophy of mind seriously and knowing something… — George Graham Copy Share Image
“I thought part of the idea of having therapy was putting one in touch with his or her feelings. And don’t give… — Olga Núñez Miret Copy Share Image
“Patients coming for consultation complain about headaches, sexual disturbances, inhibitions in work, or other symptoms; as a rule, they do not complain… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
You know what? I’m sure drug dealers on the street, in some way, they are making money. That’s what I equate it… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
I think that's a major reason. Instead of turning in their own lives to philosophy, religion, love, family life, or nature, they… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
“Yet, I believe that my experience of depression has helped me to be a more humane and understanding therapist. Psychiatrists get depressed… — Linda Gask Copy Share Image
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“I think more people would stay active in church, if they didn't get so offended by the actions of members. Sometimes, you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“A little later, when breakfast was over and I had not yet gone up-stairs to my room, I had my first interview… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“Equally serious is the complaint that psychoanalysis as a medical practice is a form of oppressive social control, labelling individuals and forcing… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“As mandatory reporting laws and community awareness drove an increase its child protection investigations throughout the 1980s, some children began to disclose… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
For Jews, the Messiah has never come; for Christians, He has come but once; for modern man, He appears and disappears with… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Psychiatrists are usually very well imbued with the clinical role, where helping the sick person is the goal. And that's quite incompatible… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
The destructive impact of psychiatry upon our civilization has been given far too little attention, and the role of psychiatry in Nazi… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normalbranch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a… — Frances Wriht Copy Share Image
When I am in Egypt, I am phoned because I am listed in the medical directory under "Mental Health and Psychiatry." And… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
the idea of a finished human product not only appears presumptuous but even, in my opinion, lacks any strong appeal. Life is… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
I hope what I do when I draw from other people's lives is pay tribute. To try to understand what it means… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“Wilhelm Reich identified "armor" as the sum total of typical character attitudes, which an individual develops as a blocking against his emotional… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating… — Edward Shorter Copy Share Image
Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself,… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“DENIAL Defense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant realities is disavowed; refers to keeping out of conscious awareness any aspects of… — Benjamin Sadock Copy Share Image
It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits… — Sam Savage Copy Share Image
