The greatest communication barrier known to man is the lack of the common core of experience Whens the last time you had… — Stanley Victor Paskavich 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
“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
I think that one of the things that has happened is that psychiatry has become the religion of liberalism. — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“The irony of seeking a shrink: they are successful in shrinking your brain but unfortunately they also make your wallet shrink.” — Mico Monsalve Copy Share Image
I've had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months - it's sort of like getting your oil checked -… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth) so that the madman can always… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“ It's a ridiculous profession and it's getting worse. It's becoming almost like palm reading or phrenology. It's been relegated to pop… — Ian Shoales Copy Share Image
“Identity confusion is defined by the SCID-D as a subjective feeling of uncertainty, puzzlement, or conflict about one's own identity. Patients who… — Marlene Steinberg Copy Share Image
“Then the weeks rolled by in a sinister psych ward haze filled with white-coated orderlies and rocking whack-job patients torn straight from… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I grew tired of religion some time not long after birth. I believe in people, I believe in humans, I believe in… — John Malkovich 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 data on organised abuse has been simplified or distorted in an attempt force it to conform to mechanical psychological models of… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“As mandatory reporting laws and community awareness drove an increase its child protection investigations throughout the 1980s, some children began to disclose… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Perhaps my depression coincided with the start of every academic year and the subsequent increase in my workload. Or maybe there was… — Linda Gask Copy Share Image
“I cannot accept the proposition that the four-hundred-year travail of the American Negro should result merely in his attainment of the present… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Although it is important to be able to recognise and disclose symptom of physical illnesses or injury, you need to be more… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“What daily life is like for “a multiple” Imagine that you have periods of “lost time.” You may find writings or drawings… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have… — Allen Frances Copy Share Image
Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the… — Brock Chisholm 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul. — Alexander Chase 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
The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“I’ve often wondered which, psychiatry or religion, has done more damage. Between them, they about owned it all.” — William Brinkley Copy Share Image
Honestly I've rode the razors edge a lot of times. Finger on the trigger bullet in the chamber muzzle in my mouth.… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
