Based Quote by Thomas R. Insel

Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the…

— Irvin D. Yalom

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

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

“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 don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.

— Kirstie Alley

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 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

Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.

— Bertrand Russell

A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Controversy has always existed among psychiatrists and psychologists about the validity of personality diagnosis. Some believe in the merits of the enterprise and devote…

— Irvin D. Yalom

I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession.

— Rooney Mara

I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now…

— Gore Vidal