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...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments. — William Sargant
No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind. — John B. Watson
This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one in… — John B. Watson
I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion — Sigmund Freud
All neurotics seek the religious — Carl Jung
The word soul has lost its meaning and even its plausibility.... Faith, hope and love can no longer be seen simply as virtues or graces;… — Unknown Author
Those of us who work in this field see a developing potential for nearly a total control of human emotional status, mental functioning, and will… — Nathan S. Kline
The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a… — John Dewey
The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility — Brock Chisholm
The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent… — Brock Chisholm
...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right… — Brock Chisholm
Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce… — Sigmund Freud
Where is the direction of influence going to run? It's going to run - and the research confirms this again and again - it's going… — Unknown Author
Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence.... If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities… — Unknown Author
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences,… — John Ralston Saul
Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished. — Thomas Szasz
The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered. — Unknown Author
LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry. — Stanislav Grof
In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might… — Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy. — Leonard Roy Frank
You know what? I’m sure drug dealers on the street, in some way, they are making money. That’s what I equate it to. Here is… — Tom Cruise
The relation of eugenics to British psychiatry bears examination. The primary controlling body for psychiatry in England is the British National Association for Mental Health… — Jim Keith
Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the… — R. D. Laing
Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years. — Thomas Szasz

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