Psychiatrist Quotes - Page 9

• I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry about questions of real or unreal. They only talk out of expediency. It’s the system that matters. How the data arrange themselves inside it. Some are consistent, others fall apart.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Real, Fall, Mean

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• Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Stronger, Want, Faces

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• In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.

  Dario Argento

  Judging

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• If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Believe, Health

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• I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

  Benjamin Carson

  School, Reality, Firsts

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• I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Littles, Kind, Psychologist

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• If I went to a psychiatrist, it would be a long session. I've always thought that I do have a number of issues that probably need dealing with, because I am quite odd in some ways.

  Simon Cowell

  Numbers, Issues, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Mistake, Past, Choices

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• Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.

  John Irving

  Umpires, Surfing, Novelists

  "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (Eighth Series)". Book edited by George Plimpton, 1988.

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• I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that.

  Tom Araya

  Book, Thinking, People

  "Exclusive! Interview With Slayer Vocalist/ Bassist Tom Araya". Interview with Brian Davis, www.knaclive.com. January 4, 2005.

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• There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists.

  Nicole Kidman

  Drug, Dresses, Toms

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• If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist.

  Ed Koch

  Issues, Vote, Agree

  "Outspoken Ed Koch’s best quotes" by Kevin Cirilli, www.politico.com. February 2, 2013.

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• Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.

  John Malkovich

  Writing, Shooting, Want

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• It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'

  Viggo Mortensen

  Needs, Helping, Idiot

  "Viggo Mortensen, King of The Road". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 23, 2009.

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

  Kirstie Alley

  Believe, Psychotic, Psychiatry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Thinking, Differences, Psychotic

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• How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” “I don’t know. How many?” “Eight.” “Why?” “Oh, stop overanalyzing it.

  Dennis Lehane

  Eight, Doe, Screws

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• I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.

  Ray Bradbury

  Believe, Needs

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.10, Hamilton Books

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• One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

  Saul Bellow

  Existentialism, Murder

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it scared me too, that I might end up as a mother of 3 working in a psychiatrist's office, or renting surfboards...I guess I saw their lives as failed somehow, absent of the Big Win...What is fate was an inherited trait? What if luck came through the genetic line, and the ability to "succeed" at your chosen "direction" was handed down, just like the family china? Maybe I was destined to be a weed too.

  Deb Caletti

  Weed, Mother, Fate

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• My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Father, Musician, Sides

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• Just look at the list of who the lowest-paid people are. Pediatricians are at the bottom. You would also look at internists. You would look at psychiatrists. You would look at family physicians, HIV specialists. People who take care of chronic illnesses by seeing people carefully over time, those are the people who get the least money. The people who have the most are people like orthopedic surgeons, interventional cardiologists. And my point isn't that there is something wrong with heroism.

  Atul Gawande

  People, Heroism, Care

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In Florida I was illiterate, Boxing Authority didn't want me, then they had a special psychiatrist to come to Kentucky, they checked and they didn't want me. But as soon as my name was Mohammed Ali, as soon as I announced I was a Muslim, then all of a sudden I became smart.

  Muhammad Ali

  Smart, Florida, Kentucky

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• Psychiatrist are like mind hookers. Give them 200 dollars and they just screw with your head.

  Christopher Titus

  Giving, Mind, Dollars

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• A psychiatrist once asked me to draw a picture of my family. This is when I was a member of a family of four. I drew the three other people in the family first, bodies and heads. And then, last, I began to draw myself - but gave up.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  People, Firsts, Family First

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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