Psychiatry Quotes

137 quotes by 79 authors

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it… — Saul Bellow
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. — William S. Burroughs
I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part. — Kirstie Alley
It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand. — Sigmund Freud
It's funny - people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and THEY go to CHURCH... — John Malkovich
There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism. — Harry Stack Sullivan
I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to… — Thomas Szasz
Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are… — Clare Boylan
According to the British Journal of Psychiatry, marijuana can cause panic attacks. I don't know . . . The only time I have ever seen… — Jay Leno
Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man. — Erich Fromm
It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone the two currents… — Carl Jung
This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you. — Kate Millett
Everybody believes in psychiatry it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there… — Kate Millett
Psychiatry causes so much death — Kate Millett
Only in psychiatry is the existence of physical disease determined by APA presidential proclamations, by committee decisions, and even, by a vote of the members… — Peter Breggin
The destructive impact of psychiatry upon our civilization has been given far too little attention, and the role of psychiatry in Nazi Germany almost no… — Peter Breggin
I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books! — George W. Crane
...through schools of the world we shall disseminate a new conception of government - one that will embrace all of the collective activities of men;… — Harold Rugg
Education is thus a most power ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday school, meeting… — Charles Francis Potter
Men are built, not born.... Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or wood....… — John B. Watson

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