If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“A Spanish poet, Antonio Machado, once said: ‘Dijiste media verdad. Dirán que mientes dos veces si dices la otra mitad.’” “Translated means…”… — Olga Núñez Miret Copy Share Image
“. . . military psychologists tell me that the best practitioners in their field are those trained in child psychiatry; eighteen- and… — Roy Richard Grinker Copy Share Image
Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable… — Sigmund Freud 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
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
“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
“What daily life is like for “a multiple” Imagine that you have periods of “lost time.” You may find writings or drawings… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
The fields of clinical psychology and psychiatry exist specifically to help the emotionally unstable become more stable and lead happier, healthier lives.… — David J. Lieberman Copy Share Image
The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Even so, mankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom, a disease spreading more widely each year and growing in intensity.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“I recently consulted to a therapist who felt he had accomplished something by getting his dissociative client to remain in her ANP… — Alison Miller 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
“Nonetheless, it remains the case that the psychological literature on organised abuse has not provided a coherent explanation for the emergence of… — Michael Salter 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
“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
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
“I myself must also say I believe it is true that in the end humanitarianism will triumph; only I fear that at… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
...a student attains 'higher order thinking' when he no longer believes in right or wrong". "A large part of what we call… — Benjamin Bloom Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“The data on organised abuse has been simplified or distorted in an attempt force it to conform to mechanical psychological models of… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Like the psychological model outlined above, the psychiatric understanding of ’organised paedophilia’ is a framework that is focused primarily on individual psychological… — Michael Salter 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
