Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I like understanding what's underneath, what's really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
“But hey, at least we’ll have this strange story to tell, love and death and blood and daddy-issues. And holy crap, I’m… — Kendare Blake Copy Share Image
Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“I'd rather spend $200 a month to board a horse I only ride once or twice a month than to pay the… — Jerry Orange Copy Share Image
A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist, moving an audience... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A… — Jerome Lawrence 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
Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Well, I worked in a sheet metal factory once and scarred my wrist from the cuts. I found a sympathetic psychiatrist who… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
Isn't it boring ... how people always want to tell you their own stories instead of listening to yours? I suppose that's… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you that you might be delusional?' That's what the psychiatrist said, but I think he's wrong. There's… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
When we look back in time and study old cultures and people, we are impressed that death has always been distasteful to… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis… — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took… — Morag Joss Copy Share Image
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“You keep saying that and I keep suggesting a psychiatrist. Maybe it's time you take my advice.” — Jocelyn Adams Copy Share Image
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one. — Karl A. Menninger 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
“Thinking made her throat ache. That was a good reason not to think about seeing a psychiatrist.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Psychiatrist are like mind hookers. Give them 200 dollars and they just screw with your head. — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
An editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself-a good editor will make your book better. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life… — Charles Beaumont Copy Share Image
“Apparently, I had graduated from psychologist and was now in need of a full-blown psychiatrist.” — Christina Garner Copy Share Image
After my son died, I went to a psychiatrist. He proved - or I proved - that Sigmund Freud was correct when… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
If you don't know what sex is before you're 21 you're going to have a problem and should go to your psychiatrist. — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
“I was attracted to the strangeness of his mind as a psychiatrist might have been drawn to an interesting case. he wanted… — Elizabeth Harrower Copy Share Image
...science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine." — George Howe Colt Copy Share Image
No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest. — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when… — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
I've never been to a psychiatrist so have never gotten to the point where I could be formally diagnosed with any disorder.… — Autre Ne Veut 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
The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions. — John Gierach Copy Share Image
The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
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 took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing… — Amanda Bearse Copy Share Image
Anybody who is thinking of applying for the Scotland job in the next eight or nine years should go get themselves checked… — Martin O'Neill Copy Share Image
Although I've never been to a psychiatrist, I think I've probably been analyzed as much as any person in the United States. — Soupy Sales Copy Share Image