I believe I'm the best therapy my psychiatrist has ever had. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“The implication that the change in nomenclature from “Multiple Personality Disorder” to “Dissociative Identity Disorder” means the condition has been repudiated and… — Richard P. Kluft Copy Share Image
Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Statistics say that a range of mental disorders affects more than one in four Americans in any given year. That means millions… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“Of course. A new consciousness - I that that is the word,' said the old man after he had thought a moment.… — Michael Novak 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
Going to a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things a person can do. — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
I never read Freud. I've never been attracted to anything he has said, and I think he's started a lot of nonsense… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I'm self actualized that forever evading feeling, psychiatrists call it visions of grandeur Christians call it Born again I call it Great! — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the… — Robert Klein 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
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
“The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet. — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.” — Kevin Alan Lee Copy Share Image
“...someday..., we'll medicate human experience right out of the human experience.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“Some alters are what Dr Ross describes in Multiple Personality Disorder as 'fragments'. which are 'relatively limited psychic states that express only… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“But does psychological sophistication override a sense that some actions are just plain bad? How much of human behaviour, in the end,… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books! — George W. Crane Copy Share Image
But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
“Once the individual has learned to dissociate in the context of trauma, he or she may subsequently transfer this response to other… — Julie P. Gentile Copy Share Image
Men are built, not born.... Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image