Actually Quote by Drew Pinsky

When a patient tells a doctor that every symptom is the most horrible ever - and the physical exam and labs are normal -…

— Danielle Ofri

I've never been to a psychiatrist so have never gotten to the point where I could be formally diagnosed with any disorder. But I…

— Autre Ne Veut

Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them…

— Jacques Lacan

Some view mental illness as a purely spiritual issue and deny the need for medication or other forms of treatment. Others view it as…

— Sheila Walsh

Many doctors spend their time looking For the symptoms of illness, Rarely acknowledging that illness is itself a symptom.

— Margo Adair

Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn very deeply…

— James Hillman

We say that one gets cancer, or a cold, or kidney disease. One would never think to say that one is cancer. But we…

— Paul Gruchow

There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental…

— Allen Frances

Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the…

— Karl Abraham

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

— Carl Jung

Mental illness is so hard to define. It's not like an umbrella diagnosis that everyone can fall under, and even one person can have…

— Stephanie Labbe