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She had read enough lives of the poetesses to know all about inpatient psychiatric care. — Nell Zink

In 1955, there was one psychiatric bed for every three hundred Americans; fifty years later, it was one bed for every three thousand. — Bryan Stevenson

The amount of sympathy you get from having an illness is paid out like a Ponzi scheme and psychiatric disorders are all the way at the bottom. — Nenia Campbell

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system. — Trisha Goddard

Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests. — Allen Frances

In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives and frequently does. — Peter Breggin

Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment. — American Psychiatric Association

I make the modest proposal that psychiatric care should be as easy to get as bullets at Wal-Mart. — Andy Borowitz

A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon. — R.D. Laing

Judging people for whom they love (a same sex partner) rather than by whom they harm, should in itself merit a psychiatric diagnosis. — Harriet Lerner

Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment. — Thomas Szasz

The psychiatric endeavor - voodoo, really - is premised on the medicalization of misconduct. — Ilana Mercer

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse. — Jo Brand

I think you're a terrible person and I hope you get some psychiatric help. Go to hell. — Maddox

While a psychiatric diagnosis can serve a purpose in treatment plans, it should not become a tool to discredit a person's disclosure of abuse. — Lee Ann Hoff

Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine. — Thomas Szasz

Eccentricity is not a psychiatric disorder. — Bill Dedman

His lover was a born entertainer who liked to kill things. How he wasn't in a psychiatric ward or on a Most Wanted list somewhere was anyone's guess. — Abigail Roux

The psychiatric ward was a really creepy place and, hindsight being 20/20, the creepiest thing about it was that I truly belonged there. — Steve-O

Wow," Jake said, his face going blank. "Assface. Is that a technical term? Maybe some kind of psychiatric diagnosis I'm not familiar with? — Lynn Red

I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations. — Jane Hersey

When anxiety disrupts functioning, it's psychiatric illness. — Harriet Lerner

Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed. — Elyn Saks

Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help. — Francis Crick

Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day. — Michael Thomas Ford

I wish I were a bird. I'd fly all the way up to the clouds and look down on this place, and then I'd go far away and never come back. — Jason Medina

Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do. — Richard Condon

The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the 1950s.") — Scott Stossel

I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox. — Jack Osbourne

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with. — Robert Brault

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. — Alfred Korzybski

maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder. I — Jon Ronson

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself. — Kate Millett

My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me. — Darynda Jones

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder. — Sean Connery

Deep scientific psychoanalysis reveals that excessive beliefs and dependence on religion is a superstition and fear induced psychiatric disease. — Debasish Mridha

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. — Ken Livingstone

My life is just like a soap opera filmed in a psychiatric ward. - T-SHIRT — Darynda Jones

Ambien might have mentally just tossed my salad. WITH CROUTONS. — Jen Lancaster

Anyone can look through my sketchbooks as long as they don't have a background in psychiatric medicine. — Chris Riddell

Much of today's psychiatric science is based on wish, myth, and politics ... — Loren Mosher

Yes, I'm very normal, everything is okay, I won't become a psychiatric case. — Alfred Jodl

Overhead announcement at psychiatric hospital: Lithium is no longer available on credit. — Earl Mac Rauch

Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments. — William Sargant