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• I have known a number of Don Juans who were good studs and who cavorted between the sheets without a psychiatrist to guide them. But most of the busy love-makers I knew were looking for masculinity rather than practicing it. They were fellows of dubious lust.

  Ben Hecht

  Numbers, Lust, Juan

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.

  Karl Kraus

  Father, Example, Causes

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• ..why is it that in problematic situations almost everyone resorts to axioms and societal remedies that in actuality almost nobody believes in?...ask yourself, have you ever known anyone whose marriage was saved by a marriage counselor, whose drinking was cured by a psychiatrist, whose son was kept out of reform school by a social worker?

  James Lee Burke

  Drinking, Believe, School

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• If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Stupid, Pay, Idiot

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• If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

  Aldous Huxley

  Peace, Would Be, Earth

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• But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have
  on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist.

  J. D. Salinger

  Pain, Doe, Earth

  "Seymour: An Introduction (1959)". "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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• The need of an insecure psychiatrist to draw security from a virtuous adjustment to the conventionalities of his time and from a quest for approval from "the good and the great" may turn out to be another agent interfering with his ability to listen in a therapeutically valid fashion. This type of dependence gives rise to the danger that the psychiatrist may consider the changeable man-made standards of the society in which he lives to be eternal values to which he and his patients must conform.

  Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

  Fashion, Insecure, Men

  Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1960). “Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy”, p.32, University of Chicago Press

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• Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who needs a psychiatrist must be crazy.

  Harry Segall

  Crazy, Believe, Men

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• If you don't know what sex is before you're 21 you're going to have a problem and should go to your psychiatrist.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Sex, Problem, Should

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If you're a parent, I tell you how to get through Christmas. I think that if you've ever had a bad feeling about Christmas coming, I'll tell you how to deal with it. So, I think in a way it's like going to a sane psychiatrist that actually gives you some good advice, I hope!

  John Waters

  Thinking, Giving, Parent

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• If you're dating a man who you think might be "Mr. Right," if he a) got older, b) got a new job, or c) visited a psychiatrist, you are in for a nasty surprise. The cocoon-to-butterfly theory only works on cocoons and butterflies.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Jobs, Humor

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• A man goes to a psychiatrist. "Nobody listens to me!" The doctor says, "Next!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• I, quite literally, woke up from a coma, from having tried to kill myself and it was very clear to me what my psychiatrist had been saying for years. The choice is not between a drug that has side effects or not, life is not ideal. Yes, your drug has side effects and yes if you don't take it you're going to die.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Years, Choices, Drug

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is an illusion and try to 'cure' it: and this assumption they make not as professional psychologists but as amateur philosophers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Trying, Philosopher

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• You essentially have a human-relations database on millions of Americans. The administration said, "Well we're not listening to calls, we don't collect content." As [Vice President] Joe Biden said when he was a United States senator, you don't need to listen to those calls. If you have who somebody called, when and where, and you learned, for example, somebody called a psychiatrist three times in the last few days and twice after midnight, you know a lot about that person that they may not want people to know about them, especially the government.

  Ron Wyden

  Government, People, Listening

  "Stopping the 'Ever-Expanding Surveillance State'". Interview with Aj Vicens, www.motherjones.com. July 31, 2013.

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• My biggest problem with President Bush is when we were in kindergarten together, he broke my favorite red crayon! Since that moment, my psychiatrist told me that I haven't been able to move forward as a person. Severely hindering the chances of me being able to mature any since that tragic day. For that, I'll never forgive him.

  Carolyn Parrish

  Moving Forward, Forgiving, President

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• The self must be a tense bow. It must struggle with opposites rather than harmonize them, rather than turn the tension over to the great instruments of last manhood the skilled bow unbenders and Jesuits of our days, the psychiatrists, who, in the same spirit and as part of the same conspiracy of modernity as the peace virtuosos, reduce conflict.

  Allan Bloom

  Struggle, Self, Opposites

  Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster

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• Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.

  Erica Jong

  Men, He Man, Psychiatry

  Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.171, Open Road Media

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• But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are we supposed to be psychiatrists? Isn't it enough to write and tell the truth? It's not like telling the truth is common. Writers are the earthworms of society. We aerate the soil. That's enough.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Soil, Common

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• Are you seeing a psychiatrist?' as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years it was a compliment. It meant, 'One can plainly see you are sensitive, intense, and interesting, and therefore neurotic.' Only the dullest of clods trudged around without a neurosis.

  Barbara Holland

  Years, Interesting, Noses

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• Anyone living in Los Angeles who says they don't need a psychiatrist, needs a psychiatrist.

  Kathy Lette

  Needs, Los Angeles

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• I might not be a psychiatrist, but I am convinced that sex is not as important as we tend to make it. First there is that little feeling, that little red flame, called love. Blow on the flame and make it get bigger like a fire, don't blow it out like a candle.

  Xaviera Hollander

  Sex, Blow, Fire

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• In Greece we're too poor to go to psychiatrists -- we have friends instead.

  Melina Mercouri

  Poor, Greece

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• I do not believe that a dog can be cured by a psychiatrist, but I think some owners could be helped by one.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Dog, Believe, Thinking

  Barbara Woodhouse (1984). “No Bad Dogs: The Woodhouse Way”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Within the world of TV land, into which American life has been reduced as well as reproduced, the phenomenon of the talk show has emerged as a genre located somewhere on the spectrum between coffee klatch and town meeting, or perhaps between the psychiatrist's couch and the crowd scene at a bad accident.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Coffee, Land, Towns

  Patricia J. Williams (1995). “The Rooster's Egg”, p.110, Harvard University Press

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