“For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that… — Harry Segall Copy Share Image
“He'd built his career on the fallacy of clear boundaries between the material and the imagined, and the idea that the difference… — Katherine Lampe Copy Share Image
“My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release. — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three… — Charles M. Schulz 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
DSM-IV is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by medicine in general. Insiders know it is more a political than scientific… — Loren Mosher Copy Share Image
In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order… — Robert Jay Lifton 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
If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“A Spanish poet, Antonio Machado, once said: ‘Dijiste media verdad. Dirán que mientes dos veces si dices la otra mitad.’” “Translated means…”… — Olga Núñez Miret Copy Share Image
“. . . military psychologists tell me that the best practitioners in their field are those trained in child psychiatry; eighteen- and… — Roy Richard Grinker 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
“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
The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The fields of clinical psychology and psychiatry exist specifically to help the emotionally unstable become more stable and lead happier, healthier lives.… — David J. Lieberman Copy Share Image
“Even so, mankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom, a disease spreading more widely each year and growing in intensity.… — Isaac Asimov 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
“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
“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
The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the… — Brock Chisholm 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
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
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
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
“It is the sad privilege of medicine, and especially that of psychiatry, to ever witness the weaknesses of human nature and the… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing 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
“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
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
It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I've invaded the walls of the asylums with my ink pen. The way they look at mental illness won't be the same… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I'm a practicing psychiatrist and I think that I really believe in the advances of psychiatry. Our diagnoses are more precise. — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
If you do jot feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work -… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
Through the miracles of modern medicine George Burns still chases pretty girls, and through the miracle of modern psychiatry he intends to… — Frank Welker 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
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