Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system. — Trisha Goddard Copy Share Image
Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives and frequently does. — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help. — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front… — Mike Gorman Copy Share Image
Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one… — Spencer Bachus Copy Share Image
When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
My father was a military judge, and my mother was a psychiatric social worker. My brother and sister and I were moved… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Depression has been called the world's number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad ... he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
The psychiatric ward was a really creepy place and, hindsight being 20/20, the creepiest thing about it was that I truly belonged there. — Steve-O Copy Share Image
Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon,… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles… — Dale Archer Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
There was a time when only wise books were read helping us to bear our pain and misery. This, after all, is… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Exorcists always need to distinguish demonic possessions from mental or psychiatric disorders, and they use three symptoms to identify people as possessed.… — Gerard Verschuuren Copy Share Image
Countries with the best-resourced medical services have the best outcomes for physical illness (it is better to have a heart attack in… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
The Maze is a painting of the inside of my skull, which I painted when I was in England as a patient… — William Kurelek Copy Share Image
The dumping of the mentally ill, full of these new psychiatric drugs, into the streets is a scandal. It's been carried furthest… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more… — E. Fuller Torrey Copy Share Image
“Janna knew - Rikki knew — and I knew, too — that becoming Dr Cameron West wouldn't make me feel a damn… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“As a therapist, I have many avenues in which to learn about DID, but I hear exactly the opposite from clients and… — Deborah Bray Haddock Copy Share Image
“We must understand that those who experience abuse as children, and particularly those who experience incest, almost invariably suffer from a profound… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
“Why do I take a blade and slash my arms? Why do I drink myself into a stupor? Why do I swallow… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Having DID is, for many people, a very lonely thing. If this book reaches some people whose experiences resonate with mine and… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests. — Allen Frances Copy Share Image
Yes, I'm very normal, everything is okay, I won't become a psychiatric case. — Alfred Jodl Copy Share Image
I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric… — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
“Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is absolutely nothing else to do.” — Richard Condon Copy Share Image
Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Exercise is the single most powerful tool you have to optimize your brain function…exercise has a profound impact on cognitive abilities and… — John Ratey Copy Share Image
Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that… — E. Fuller Torrey Copy Share Image