I practiced medicine up 'til now. I practice psychiatry. I shifted from different specialties. I started as a village doctor - community… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines.” — Jon Ronson 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
“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
“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
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
Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry. — Ed Koch 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
“On having a backup plan: "Always a good plan anytime you want to follow your dream - I love writing, acting, and… — Samantha Steele Copy Share Image
Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable… — Sigmund Freud 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
Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself,… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“DENIAL Defense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant realities is disavowed; refers to keeping out of conscious awareness any aspects of… — Benjamin Sadock Copy Share Image
It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits… — Sam Savage Copy Share Image
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“Wilhelm Reich identified "armor" as the sum total of typical character attitudes, which an individual develops as a blocking against his emotional… — Wilhelm Reich 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
“Matthews asked: “How intimate was your relationship with Dr. Miller?” “Intimate?” Phil still couldn’t grasp what they were asking. “My colleague is… — Olga Núñez Miret 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
“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
“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
The word soul has lost its meaning and even its plausibility… Faith, hope and love can no longer be seen simply as… — Paul Pruyser 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
“What do you think of Cain’s affirmations?” “He never told a lie. If he says that God talks to him, he is… — Olga Núñez Miret Copy Share Image
Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I hope what I do when I draw from other people's lives is pay tribute. To try to understand what it means… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
...a student attains 'higher order thinking' when he no longer believes in right or wrong". "A large part of what we call… — Benjamin Bloom Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“I myself must also say I believe it is true that in the end humanitarianism will triumph; only I fear that at… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Those modern analysts, they charge so much! In my day, for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“This is how every fairy tale starts. With the storyteller explaining to the reader just how it is. There once was a… — Michael F. Stewart Copy Share Image
“Just as the capacity for experiencing fatigue has evolved to protect us from overexertion, the capacity for sadness may have evolved to… — Randolph M. Nesse 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
...through schools of the world we shall disseminate a new conception of government - one that will embrace all of the collective… — Harold Rugg Copy Share Image
...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
“Patients coming for consultation complain about headaches, sexual disturbances, inhibitions in work, or other symptoms; as a rule, they do not complain… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“I thought part of the idea of having therapy was putting one in touch with his or her feelings. And don’t give… — Olga Núñez Miret 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
It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“…it seemed to Kirsch that the most reliable guide to the mental landscape of a patient was the patient himself. He was… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
