Best Psychiatry Sayings

137 Psychiatry quotes by 70 unique authors

After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles. — Morton Feldman
Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again. — Ross Macdonald
It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally… — Scott Stossel
Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape.… — Carl Jung
I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to… — Gore Vidal
The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from… — Sigmund Freud
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the… — Thomas Szasz
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 only when the… — Thomas Szasz
Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood… — Thomas Szasz
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as… — Charles Horton Cooley
The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness. — Karl Kraus
It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same… — Antonin Artaud
Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her… — Janet Frame
But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical… — Robert Jay Lifton
The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being… — Robert Jay Lifton
The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient. — R. D. Laing
Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. — Ken Livingstone
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century,… — Harold Rosenberg
Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe,… — Michel Foucault
Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ. — Alice Weaver Flaherty
DSM-IV is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by medicine in general. Insiders know it is more a political than scientific document… DSM-IV has… — Loren Mosher
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. — Sigmund Freud
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet. — Rodney Dangerfield
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. — Alfred Hitchcock
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. — Carl Jung

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