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Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again. — Ross Macdonald

LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry. — Stanislav Grof

After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles. — Morton Feldman

A degree in psychiatry merely qualifies one to begin learning about the intricacies and foibles of the human personality. — Dan Simmons

Since when did psychiatry become one big, fat Myspace survey? — Nenia Campbell

Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much. — Joyce Rachelle

Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy. — Leonard Roy Frank

Your imaginary friend isn't the problem, Amanda. The problem is that you don't seem to have any real friends. — Rebecca McNutt

What's more insane? Hearing imaginary voices? Or not hearing the real ones? — Forrest Carr

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist. — Ben Barnes

Going to a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things a person can do. — Peter Breggin

A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money. — Sylvia Plath

Someday ... , we'll medicate human experience right out of the human experience. — Dennis Lehane

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. — Laurence J. Peter

One of the fundamental truths of psychiatry was that sometimes you had to leave a patient who needed you. She — Kristin Hannah

Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished. — Thomas Szasz

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. — Thomas Szasz

The irony of taking Anti Depressants: you take them to feel good but they also make you feel bad or worse because you worry about your purse. — Mico Monsalve

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

They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me. — Nathaniel Lee

I can't answer you in a nutshell. We wouldn't fit unless we saw the same shrink. — Brian Spellman

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. — Alfred Hitchcock

The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness — Michel Foucault

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

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet. — Rodney Dangerfield

The Perspectives of Psychiatry, Paul R. McHugh and Phillip R. Slavney identify four approaches to a suffering person. — Joshua Wolf Shenk

All neurotics seek the religious — Carl Jung

Grief is NOT a mental illness or an emotional disorder. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never experienced it for themselves. — Rebecca McNutt

Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry. — Ed Koch

Talking to yourself is okay. Answering back is risky. — Brian Spellman

I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us. — Gore Vidal

The irony of seeking a shrink: they are successful in shrinking your brain but unfortunately they also make your wallet shrink. — Mico Monsalve

If the mind fits, shrink it. — Brian Spellman

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on. — Norah Vincent

Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world. — Munia Khan

I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write. — Kay Redfield Jamison

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism. — Harry Stack Sullivan

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches. — Sigmund Freud

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection. — Sigmund Freud

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

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves — Sigmund Freud

Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines. — Jon Ronson

Psychiatry causes so much death. — Kate Millett

Sanity is over-rated. It lacks color. — Forrest Carr

The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. — C. G. Jung

The child psychologist's clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where creativity goes to drown. — Rebecca McNutt

[A]ll mental disorders are in some sense passionate convictions about the situation of the self in the world. — Alan A. Stone

Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry ... and he's a mass murderer. — Thomas Harris

If you doubt your sanity, is that proof? — James Qualls

I had sent her to four consecutive psychiatrists, and not one of them had gotten me sober. — Alcoholics Anonymous

In psychiatry, Doctor -unlike, perhaps, the world of sexually transmitted disease clinics- there is no such thing as a cure. There is only adjustment. — Neil Gaiman

Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ. — Alice Weaver Flaherty

Psychiatrists urge me to take my tranquilizers. When I don't they become agitated. I take their pills to calm them down. — Brian Spellman

He tried to sleep, but his head was filled with the faces of lunatics, their palsied hands, their shattered eyes. — Sebastian Faulks

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years. — Thomas Szasz

Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse. — Thomas Szasz

People... people who NEED people, are the yuckiest people in the world. — G.S. Johnston

Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia. — Thomas Harris

He'd built his career on the fallacy of clear boundaries between the material and the imagined, and the idea that the difference mattered. — Katherine Lampe

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

Miracles occur in psychoanalysis as seldom as anywhere else. — Karen Horney

They safely cured the world of sadness, wiser the Pfizer for it? — Brian Spellman

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

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. — Henry A. Kissinger

The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball. — Ron Luciano

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know. — Harry Stack Sullivan

Sometimes I get so sad that it jest sounds good. — Abbi Glines

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

[M]an does not live by welfare alone. — Viktor E. Frankl

My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient. — R.D. Laing

The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered. — Malcolm Rogers

I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!"
"An exact science?!"
"Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars! — Charles M. Schulz

Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid. — Erica Jong

Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience — Christopher Marshall

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man. — Erich Fromm

I've often wondered which, psychiatry or religion, has done more damage. Between them, they about owned it all. — William Brinkley

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you. — Kate Millett

Psychiatry is a dirty mirror ... — Anne Sexton

I don't like psychiatrists," Alecto told her. "Not because they don't think I'm real, but because they have no idea what they're doing. — Rebecca McNutt

I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books! — George W. Crane

Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming? — Charles Dickens