“What I do know is that when a person is first asked to explain what is wrong, they may find it almost… — Linda Gask Copy Share Image
Where I come from these days, anybody who isn't seeing a therapist needs to. — Edna Buchanan Copy Share Image
Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view,… — Clare Boylan Copy Share Image
“You tell them one real thing and then the doctor thinks he knows you. He starts getting arrogant and overfamiliar, making insulting… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of… — Janet Frame 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
Psychiatry is all biological and all social. There is no mental function without brain and social context. To ask how much of… — Leon Eisenberg Copy Share Image
We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us. — Carrie Fisher 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
The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems… — John Dewey 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
“Madmen, criminals, and rapists! Isn’t it fantastic? All the romantic proposals I’ve ever got from anybody. Somebody up there has an extremely… — 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
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 Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of… — Doris Lessing 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 psychiatrist without compassion is a terrifying thing indeed” — Jamie Deckoff-Jones Copy Share Image
“Frosh (2002) has suggested that therapeutic spaces provide children and adults with the rare opportunity to articulate experiences that are otherwise excluded… — Michael Salter 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
“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
The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“Matthews asked: “How intimate was your relationship with Dr. Miller?” “Intimate?” Phil still couldn’t grasp what they were asking. “My colleague is… — Olga Núñez Miret Copy Share Image
