Psychiatric Quotes - Page 2

• I've shot films in locations that have seemed haunted. I shot a film in a maximum-security prison in Russia. Part of it was on a psychiatric ward - there were definitely some creepy vibes there.

  Norman Reedus

  Russia, Creepy, Vibes

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• The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.

  Eric Kandel

  Heart, People, Understanding

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• I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.

  James McGreevey

  Different, Life Living, Integrated

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• I was in danger of having my children taken away from me when I needed five weeks in psychiatric care ... There is the smiling depressive which is the biggest time bomb and when they go they usually go with a bang, which was me.

  Trisha Goddard

  Children, Taken, Bangs

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• The Maze is a painting of the inside of my skull, which I painted when I was in England as a patient in Maudsley and Netherne psychiatric hospitals. It is a story of my life, well in the sense that people tell stories by the fireplace to entertain their guests, trying to make them accept you. In this case I wanted to be accepted, as an interesting specimen.

  William Kurelek

  Skulls, People, Interesting

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• Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent...and remarkably popular products and practices.

  Thomas Szasz

  Children, Practice, Fast Food

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

  Francis Crick

  Believe, Years, Needs

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• Depression has been called the worlds number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.

  David D. Burns

  Differences, Numbers, World

  David D. Burns (1980). “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”

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• It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process?

  John Irving

  Skills, People, Suffering

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• In my opinion, advocating, allowing and practicing psychiatric and psychoanalytic dogmas within the church is every bit as pagan and heretical (and therefore perilous) as propagating the teachings of some of the most bizarre cults. The only vital difference is that the cults are less dangerous because their errors are more identifiable.

  Jay E. Adams

  Teaching, Errors, Differences

  Jay E. Adams (1986). “A Theology of Christian Counseling: More Than Redemption”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

  Michael Hastings

  Military, Stress, Cia Agents

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• If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime, and driving it underground, we ought to recognize it for what it is: it's a mental illness, it's a psychiatric condition which ought to be treated sympathetically by psychiatrists and social workers.

  Tommy Douglas

  Country, Attitude, Driving

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during the debate on the proposed Omnibus bill to decriminalize homosexuality, 1968.

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

  Robert Breault

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

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• My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.

  Darynda Jones

  Goal, Life Is, Disorder

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.153, Macmillan

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• Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.

  Allen Frances

  Tests, Diagnosis, Judgment

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• Well. There is a psychiatric occurrence we see in men-not often women-where they put all their hopes and dreams onto one person, so intensely that at some point it trips a wire in the brain circuitry, and that causes them to go, in a minute, 180 degrees the other way.

  Emma Forrest

  Dream, Men, Brain

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.169, A&C Black

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• Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on the self preventing any other from really counting? Perhaps. Sometimes. Sometimes, even when we are two we are really only one; we can feel nothing but our own bones, our own difficult breaths.

  Lauren Slater

  Depression, Self, Two

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• The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how he himself can best phrase what he wishes to communicate to the patient; and, at the same time, observing the general pattern of the events being communicated. In addition to that, to make notes which will be of more than evocative value, or come anywhere near being a verbatim record of what is said, in my opinion is beyond the capacity of most human beings.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Mean, Science, Wish

  Harry Stack Sullivan (1953). “The collected works”

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• Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: 'Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to live for! I must stop, but I cannot! You must help me!'...One feels that something more than human power is needed to produce the essential psychic change. Though the aggregate of recoveries resulting from psychiatric effort is considerable, we physicians must admit we have made little impression upon the problem as a whole. Many types do not respond to the ordinary psychological approach.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Recovery, Men, Psychics

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• If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate actually went down in New York City. In World War II during the Blitz, the civilians of London were bombed almost every night for six months, but psychiatric admissions declined.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Night, People

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.

  Trisha Goddard

  Father, Nurse, Way

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• I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Psychics, Damage

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.219, Penguin

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• If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses.

  Craig Johnson

  Exercise, Risk, Illness

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• Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows what it is or how to do it.

  E. Fuller Torrey

  Years, Hygiene, Facts

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• [it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door.

  Mike Gorman

  Doors, Class, Stories

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