The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't -… — Mignon McLaughlin 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
“What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.” — R.D. Laing 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
What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of… — Stanislav Grof 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
I had been introduced to psychotherapy, in which the doctors let you talk, talk, talk, until you find the source of your… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
You know what? I’m sure drug dealers on the street, in some way, they are making money. That’s what I equate it… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
Psychiatrists are usually very well imbued with the clinical role, where helping the sick person is the goal. And that's quite incompatible… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
“Yet, I believe that my experience of depression has helped me to be a more humane and understanding therapist. Psychiatrists get depressed… — Linda Gask Copy Share Image
I think that's a major reason. Instead of turning in their own lives to philosophy, religion, love, family life, or nature, they… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
“You see, people in the depressive position are often stigmatised as ‘failures' or ‘losers'. Of course, nothing could be further from the… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“Steve [sports psychiatrist] had already taught me to try and stop worrying so much about pleasing everyone. We knew that this was… — Victoria Pendleton Copy Share Image
“But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense… — Samuel R. Delany 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
“Despite what you might think, NORMAL people do NOT cause problems, misfortunes, conflicts, distress or accidents. And when they do, they CAN… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“The lifetime prevalence of dissociative disorders among women in a general urban Turkish community was 18.3%, with 1.1% having DID (ar, Akyüz,… — Paul H Blaney 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
“A refusal on the part of psychiatrists and therapists to validate the horrors of their patients' tortured past implies a refusal to… — Felicity De Zulueta Copy Share Image
The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful… — Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Copy Share Image
“Generally speaking, psychiatry is concerned with the treatment of neuroses, with patients who are aware of their illness and wish to be… — Rennie Airth 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
The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“[P]eople who have ECT need to be prepared for some memories not returning - and for not being able to choose which… — Kitty Dukakis 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
Serious people scare me especially the ones that look at you with a blank stare and say. And how does that make… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul. — Alexander Chase 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
I think, when it comes to psychiatry, that a lot of people are overmedicated. I think when it comes to ECT a… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. — Alfred Hitchcock 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
“Believing in a non-existent unconscious simply reveals the not knowing about how the mind and our memory fundamentally works or who we… — Arne Klingenberg 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
Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
![“Steve [sports psychiatrist] had already taught me to try and stop worrying so much about pleasing everyone. We knew that this was one of my most draining flaws and he again used three groups to clarify my thinking. There would always be some people, Steve said, who would care about me and love me…” quote by Victoria Pendleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6b3/victoria-pendleton-45648_cycling_steve-sports-psychiatrist-had-already-ta_2560046.jpg)
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