Psychiatry Quotes

“If you doubt your sanity, is that proof?”

— James Qualls

“My bruises are my balm.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

— Carl Jung

Genius by birth Bipolar by design...

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball.

— Ron Luciano

Batteries die people transcend

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Psychiatry causes so much death

— Kate Millett

“ In the land of the crazies, we are all sane. ”

— Michael F. Stewart

I really do like the things my mind conjugates even if my mind doesn't like me at times.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

— Sigmund Freud

There is no definition of a mental disorder. It's bullshit. I mean, you just can't define it.

— Jon Rappoport

“Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience”

— Christopher Marshall

“a psychiatrist without compassion is a terrifying thing indeed”

— Jamie Deckoff-Jones

Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.

— Thomas Harris

After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.

— Morton Feldman

I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!

— George W. Crane

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the…

— Robert Klein

“Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.”

— Thomas Harris

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the…

— William Shakespeare

The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be…

— Antonin Artaud

I trained in psychiatry in the 1970s, and much of our training was about what was then psychoanalytic theory, with a little…

— Thomas R. Insel

I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow…

— Jean Vanier

it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither…

— Phyllis Bottome

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

Education is thus a most power ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic…

— Charles Francis Potter

All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is…

— Janet Malcolm

Psychiatry is all biological and all social. There is no mental function without brain and social context. To ask how much of…

— Leon Eisenberg

Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither…

— Michel Foucault

Conventional psychiatry has emphasized the genetic roots of psychosis based on the claim that twin and other studies show that schizophrenia is…

— Richard Bentall

“You tell them one real thing and then the doctor thinks he knows you. He starts getting arrogant and overfamiliar, making insulting…

— Sarah Schulman

Where is the direction of influence going to run? It's going to run - and the research confirms this again and again…

— William Coulson

“Despite the growing clinical and research interest in dissociative symptoms and disorders, it is also true that the substantial prevalence rates for…

— Paul H Blaney

[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this…

— Sheila Jeffreys

“Frosh (2002) has suggested that therapeutic spaces provide children and adults with the rare opportunity to articulate experiences that are otherwise excluded…

— Michael Salter

Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence… If we are to infiltrate the professional…

— John Rawlings Rees

“Tim Kasser: ‘The heyday of humanistic psychology was in the 1960s and 1970s, when Keynes dominated. But since the rise of neo-liberalism…

— James Davies

“There have been extensive human rights violations by American psychiatrists over the last 70 years. These doctors were pad by the American…

— Colin A. Ross

“Sadly, psychiatric training still includes far too little on the very serious psychiatric sequelae of childhood trauma, especially CSA [child sexual abuse].…

— Joan Coleman

The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion,…

— Michel Foucault