Psychiatrist Quotes - Page 6

• Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria or your own unfeminine inadequacy. Women have learned to submit to pain by hearing authority figures - doctors, priests, psychiatrists - tell us that what we feel is not pain.

  Naomi Wolf

  Pain, Real, Believe

  "The Beauty Myth". Book by Naomi Wolf, 1990.

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• A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.

  Amy Tan

  Dream, Drinking, Bird

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• ...science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine."

  George Howe Colt

  Heart, Medicine, Massage

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• The Drab Age is over. Color is coming into its own again. Until very recently people were literally scared out of their wits by color. Perhaps this was a hangover from our Puritan ancestors. But whatever the reason, brown, grays and neutrals were the only shades considered 'safe.' Now we know that lovely, clear colors have a vital effect on our mental happiness. Modern doctors and psychiatrists are convinced of this!

  Dorothy Draper

  Hangover, Doctors, Color

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• Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Guilt, Spy, President

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• My DVD cellophane was put on by a psychiatrist. It was shrink-wrapped.

  Tim Vine

  Dvds, Shrinks

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• If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged this movement. We feel, after years of experience, that we have found nothing which has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than the altruistic movement now growing up among them.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Children, Growing Up, Sleep

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• Throughout history, humankind has been resistant to change and to the acceptance of new ideas... When Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter, the astronomers of that time refused to accept or even to look at these satellites because the existence of these moons conflicted with their accepted beliefs. So it is now with psychiatrists and other therapists, who refuse to examine and evaluate the considerable evidence being gathered about survival after bodily death and about past life memories. Their eyes are tightly shut.

  Brian Weiss

  Memories, Healing, Eye

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• I know that things get worse before they get better because that’s what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Get Better, Bigs, Feels

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist's couch.

  John Wayne

  Cowboy, Saws, Couches

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• LSD was not a pharmacological agent generating exotic experiences by its interaction with the neurophysiological processes in the brain. This remarkable substance was clearly an unspecific catalyst of the deep dynamics of the human psyche. The experiences induced by it were not neurochemical artifacts, symptoms of a toxic psychosis as mainstream psychiatrists called it, but genuine manifestations of the human psyche itself.

  Stanislav Grof

  Psychosis, Brain, Substance

  Stanislav Grof (2009). “When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-Ordinary Realities, Read How You Want Edition”, p.58, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.

  Henry Reed

  Dream, Encouragement, People

  Henry Reed (2005). “Dream Medicine: Learning How to Get Help from Our Dreams”, p.260, We Publish Books

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• The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day.Good.They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it?

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Rain, Fall

  Ray Bradbury (2011). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sex

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• My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didnt think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?

  Andy Kaufman

  Mother, Brother, Boys

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• Mystification is the psychiatrist's defense against the danger of being found out.

  Leonard Roy Frank

  Defense, Danger, Found

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• If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses.

  Federico Fellini

  People, Judging, Hypocrisy

  "I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon". Book edited by Damian Pettigrew, December 1, 2003.

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• Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.

  Alice Neel

  Artist, Soul, Portraiture

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• Everybody has anger or regret in them one way or another. They all try different things to get it out. Some people go to psychiatrists. Some paint pictures. Some people talk it out.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Regret, People, Trying

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.

  Erich Fromm

  Ideas, Numbers, Culture

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• A comedian is simply a different kind of therapist. A comedian is a psychologist and a psychiatrist rolled into one. Except I can't prescribe medicine. (You still need a doctorate, which is bullshit.) Okay, so I'm not like a psychiatrist. Fine. But I'm still like a psychologist (except I can't diagnose or treat mental illness).

  Eugene Mirman

  Medicine, Bullshit, Comedian

  Eugene Mirman (2009). “The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation.

  James Thurber

  Reading, Book, Expression

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• I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way. It's not like the psychiatrist's couch or anything.

  Iron & Wine

  Song, People, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A number of holistic and complementary medical doctors in the US, from general practitioners to psychiatrists, are using maca with a variety of patients. Both men and women report a significant boost in libido. And a number of men who have suffered from erectile dysfunction have improved, as a result of taking maca.

  Chris Kilham

  Men, Numbers, Dysfunction

  Chris Kilham (2013). “Hot Plants: Nature's Proven Sex Boosters for Men and Women”, p.160, St. Martin's Griffin

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• If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Cutting, Smell, Psychology

  D. H. Lawrence (1956). “The Virgin and the Gipsy”

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