Psychiatry Quotes


It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand. Sigmund Freud Psychiatry 275
The difference between a neurotic, a psychotic, and a psychiatrist. The neurotic builds castles in the sky, the psychotic lives in them and the psychiatrist collects the rent. Source Unknown Psychiatry 129
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart? William Shakespeare Psychiatry 122
A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing Joey Adams Psychiatry 103
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined. Samuel Goldwyn Psychiatry 91
Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine. Thomas Szasz Psychiatry 81
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. Muriel Spark Psychiatry 75
Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it. Thomas Szasz Psychiatry 69
Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise. Michel Foucault Psychiatry 69
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. Henry Miller Psychiatry 66
A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Berg?re and looks at the audience. Bishop Mervyn Stockwood Psychiatry 65
Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application. Gene Fowler Psychiatry 63
Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis. Theodor Reik Psychiatry 63
The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness. Karl Kraus Psychiatry 61
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature. Oscar Wilde Psychiatry 58
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. J.D. Salinger Psychiatry 55
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents shortcomings. Laurence J. Peter Psychiatry 28

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