Belief Quote by Gore Vidal

We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of…

— Thomas Szasz

I think that one of the things that has happened is that psychiatry has become the religion of liberalism.

— Peter Breggin

It is doubtless true that religion has been the world's psychiatrist throughout the centuries.

— Anonymous

My philosophy is really based on humility. I don't think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is…

— Thomas R. Insel

I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it…

— Thomas Szasz

“But this "progress" in psychiatry had gone hand in hand with what, to many, seemed to be the pathologising of perfectly ordinary human weirdness.”

— Sarah Wise

“At this point in history, in my view, psychiatry has been almost completely bought out by the drug companies. . . . Psychiatrists have…

— Seth Farber

The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our mortality is…

— Stanley Kubrick

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…

— Kate Millett

“If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating mental illness…

— Edward Shorter

I'm a practicing psychiatrist and I think that I really believe in the advances of psychiatry. Our diagnoses are more precise.

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.

— Tanya Tucker