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The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. — Henry A. Kissinger
There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, you know, Superman's X-ray vision into the… — Charles Krauthammer
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. — Laurence J. Peter
The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and "psychic… — Michel Foucault
But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth… — Samuel R. Delany
I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid… — Jean Vanier
It is nothing but a kind of a microcosmos of communism - all that psychiatry', rumbled Pnin ... 'Why not leave their private sorrow to… — Vladimir Nabokov
Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer. — Thomas Harris
It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions… — Sam Savage
The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian… — Fritz Leiber
Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one… — Thomas Szasz
Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as… — Chris Cleave
I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars! — Charles M. Schulz
As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to biological, psychological and… — Viktor E. Frankl
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness — Michel Foucault
Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work… — Irvin D. Yalom
Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't… — Tom Cruise
If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like… — Harry Stack Sullivan
What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put on as rigorous… — Eric Kandel
I trained in psychiatry in the 1970s, and much of our training was about what was then psychoanalytic theory, with a little bit of theory… — Thomas R. Insel
Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant… — Robert Klein
The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure. — Martin Seligman
Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application. — Gene Fowler
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of… — Johan Huizinga
My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist. — Ben Barnes

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