Depends Quote by Phyllis Bottome

Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of…

— R. D. Laing

I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason…

— R. D. Laing

“Our society always wants to believe in cures by the “magic” pill, but I have found from my years of experience in treating psychiatric…

— Steven Lamm

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

“Psychotherapy consists of deciphering the code and bringing the flag, or symptoms, down in the process. By contrast, medications only suppress symptoms. They are…

— Joseph Glenmullen

I do not believe that a dog can be cured by a psychiatrist, but I think some owners could be helped by one.

— Barbara Woodhouse

“Generally speaking, psychiatry is concerned with the treatment of neuroses, with patients who are aware of their illness and wish to be cured. Dr.…

— Rennie Airth

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

“In psychology it is very important that the doctor should not strive to heal at all costs. One has to be exceedingly careful not…

— C.G. Jung

The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite…

— Sigmund Freud

I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They…

— Abram Hoffer

“But psychiatry’s appeal is not just about the possibility of cure, which is why the profession continues to flourish even when it cures nothing…

— Gary Greenberg