Psychiatric Quotes

79 quotes by 65 authors

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as… — Jo Brand
If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime,… — Tommy Douglas
Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little voice will tell… — Barbara Oakley
In my opinion, advocating, allowing and practicing psychiatric and psychoanalytic dogmas within the church is every bit as pagan and heretical (and therefore perilous) as… — Jay E. Adams
Homosexuality is a psychological and psychiatric disorder, there is no question about it. It is a purple menace that is threatening the proper design of… — Charles W. Socarides
Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on… — Lauren Slater
Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed. — Elyn Saks
We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United… — Elyn Saks
People go for help, but their lives don't get better because of those psychiatric drugs. They get worse. They feel numb and they're told that's… — Tom Cruise
I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder. — Sean Connery
Treatment Plans and Interventions for Depression and Anxiety Disorders provides clinicians with essential guidelines to treat patients in the era of managed care. Seven psychiatric… — Judith S. Beck
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons… — Thomas Szasz
When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975 that the American… — Armistead Maupin
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself. — Kate Millett
If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses, — Craig Johnson
Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system. — Trisha Goddard
To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you have nobody to help you. Really it isn't easy.… — Iris Apfel
...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments. — William Sargant
Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows what… — E. Fuller Torrey
[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door. — Mike Gorman

Who Wrote These Psychiatric Quotes

65 authors contributed a total of 79 Psychiatric Quotes, led by these top contributors: