Clinicals Quotes - Page 2

• It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

  Miguel Syjuco

  These Days, Kill Me, Justification

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.28, Macmillan

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• Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises.

  Gary Gygax

  Exercise, Playing Games, Rpgs

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• Combining these two ancient teachings (yoga and vipassana) in a seamless manner, which will bring maximum benefits to the meditators, is not at all a challenge. It is just removal of some mental blocks. Ideally speaking, this combination should be done based on scientific, clinical and neurobiological studies and the combined structure should be made brick by brick, layer by layer in a flawless manner as a homogeneous composition.

  Amit Ray

  Block, Yoga, Teaching

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• There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.

  Sylvia Plath

  Satisfaction, Certain, Seeing

  "The Journals of Sylvia Plath".

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• The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is to determine whether individual influences can be isolated and their effects measured. The essence of the method lies in the determination that we are really comparing like with like, and that we have not overlooked a relevant factor which is present in Group A and absent from Group B. The variability of human beings in their illnesses and in their reactions to them is a fundamental reason for the planned clinical trial and not against it.

  Austin Bradford Hill

  Determination, Lying, Science

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• These hormones still belong to the physiologist and to the clinical investigator as much as, if not more than, to the practicing physician. But as Professor Starling said many years ago, 'The physiology of today is the medicine of tomorrow'.

  Philip Showalter Hench

  Years, Medicine, Physicians

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• The Academy for Guided Imagery has created and finely honed an exquisite training program. Years of development and feedback has resulted in a creative program with great integrity and clinical relevance.

  Jeanne Achterberg

  Integrity, Years, Creative

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• ...Lag...occurred between an initial discovery and its effective clinical application. We analyzed 111 such lags: 8% amounted to 0.1 to 1 year; another 18% were 1 to 10 years; 17% (lagged) 11-20 years;...39% (lagged) 21-50 years; only 18% required more than 50 years for application.

  Julius H. Comroe, Jr.

  Dark, Discovery, Years

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• If the Health Impact Fund were to be instituted, a single company would be in charge of a medical product all the way from its conception to the health improvements realized by actual patients. The company would be paid for health impact, and it would have to arrange the entire pipeline in between - all the steps of invention, of clinical testing, of getting marketing approval in many different countries, of wholesalers and retailers and prescriptions and so on - in a holistically optimal way.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Impact, Marketing

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Depression, when it's clinical, is not a metaphor. It runs in families, and it's known to respond to medication and to counseling. However truly you believe there's a sickness to existence that can never be cured, if you're depressed you will sooner or later surrender and say: I just don't want to feel bad anymore. The shift from depressive realism to tragic realism, from being immobilized by darkness to being sustained by it, thus strangely seems to require believing in the possibility of a cure.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Running, Depressing, Believe

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• Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you are not aware at the time. To inhabit your own contentment is to be wholly present, with no orbiting satellite to take clinical readings of the state of the planet. Conventionally, you grow conscious of happiness at the very point that it begins to elude you. When not misused to talk yourself into something - when not a lie - the h-word is a classification applied in retrospect. It is a bracketing assessment, a label only decisively pasted onto an era once it is over.

  Lionel Shriver

  Lying, Reading, Elude You

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• I gave examples from my clinical practice of how love was not wholly a thought or feeling. I told of how that very evening there would be some man sitting at a bar in the local village, crying into his beer and sputtering to the bartender how much he loved his wife and children while at the same time he was wasting his family's money and depriving them of his attention. We recounted how this man was thinking love and feeling love--were they not real tears in his eyes?--but he was not in truth behaving with love.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love, Children, Real

  M. Scott Peck (2005). “Glimpses of the Devil: A Psychiatrist's Personal Accounts of Possession, Exorcism, and Redemption”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.

  David Foster Wallace

  Sarcasm, Bottles, Care

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• Then why was his tongue in your mouth? Was he conducting a clinical test of your gag reflex?" He smiled, but not nicely. "How is your gag reflex, Ms. Lane? Are you a hair trigger?" Barrons likes to use sexual innuendo to try to shut me up. I think he expects the well-raised southern belle in me will think eew and back off. Sometimes, I do think eew, but I don't back off. "I'm a spitter, if that's what you're asking." I flashed him a too-sweet smile. "Didn't look that way to me. I think you're a swallower. His tongue was halfway to China and you were still taking it." "Jealous?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sweet, Jealous, Thinking

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Faefever”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer.Memories r not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. they can be lost forever. It’s sort of like my past is an unfinished painting and as the artist of that painting,I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.

  Lady Gaga

  Beautiful, Memories, Past

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• Read! When your baby is finally down for the night, pick up a juicy book like Eat, Pray, Love or Pride and Prejudice or my personal favorite,Understanding Sleep Disorders: Narcolepsy and Apnea; A Clinical Study. Taking some time to read each night really taught me how to feign narcolepsy when my husband asked me what my "plan" was for taking down the Christmas tree.

  Tina Fey

  Baby, Husband, Book

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• The best indicator of a sociopath serial bully is not a clinical diagnosis but the trail of devastation and destruction of lives and livelihoods surrounding this individual throughout their life.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Devastation, Diagnosis

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• The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would seem to be a pursuit of the physician as harmless as it is indispensable. [But] it seemed irresistibly rational to certain minds that diseases should be as fully classifiable as are beetles and butterflies. This doctrine ... bore perhaps its richest fruit in the hands of Boissier de Sauvauges. In his Nosologia Methodica published in 1768 ... this Linnaeus of the bedside grouped diseases into ten classes, 295 genera, and 2400 species.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Butterfly, Air, Hands

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• In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

  Rollo May

  Block, Destiny, Development

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.174, W. W. Norton & Company

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• School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign finance, even simple human happiness - all are demonstrably affected by how (and whether) we connect with our family and friends and neighbours and co-workers.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Suicide, School, Simple

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• According to this woman, who requested anonymity because of her current job as a clinical psychologist, "He and Randy came to my house, they knocked on my door, and then they blindfolded me, tied me up, and put me in their car. They took me to their apartment and tried to force me to take bong hits. They'd been smoking pot."

  Rand Paul

  Weed, Jobs, Doors

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• What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!

  Israel Zangwill

  Ignorance, Doctors, Giving

  Israel Zangwill (1908). “Dreamers of the Ghetto”, p.558, Library of Alexandria

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• It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.

  Thom Yorke

  Voice, Schizophrenia, My Family

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• He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

  Dennis Lehane

  Depression, Numbness, Weary

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• The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature.

  John Fowles

  Writing, Ignorance, Reality

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