Psychiatrist Quotes - Page 5

• The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Years, Two, Psychology

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.107, BookBaby

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• You have to be a psychiatrist too, especially in fashion. A psychologist and a psychiatrist together.

  Carolina Herrera

  Fashion, Together, Psychologist

  "The Evolution of Elegance". Interview with Renee Zellweger, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 15, 2016.

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• When a psychiatrist writes a bestseller, he is then urged to write a book of advice. But I think our culture's awash in advice. The problem is we don't know whether it applies to us or whether we're an exception.

  Peter D. Kramer

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic love is a dreadful lie. Perhaps it is a necessary lie in that it ensures the survival of the falling-in-love experience that traps us into marriage. But as a psychiatrist I weep in my heart almost daily for the ghastly confusion and suffering that this myth fosters. Millions of people waste vast amounts of energy desperately and futilely attempting to make the reality of their lives conform to the unreality of the myth.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love, Lying, Fall

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• When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured em of all their daydreams and delusions.

  Rudolf Wanderone

  Gambling, Ems, Pool

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• Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

  J. G. Ballard

  Ambition, Careers, Medicine

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• Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.

  Trisha Goddard

  Exercise, Use, Corny

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• This guitar is such a pal. It's a psychiatrist. It's a doggone bartender. It's a housewife. This guy is everything. Whenever I find that I've got a problem, I'll go pick my guitar up and play. It's the greatest pal in the whole world.

  Les Paul

  Music, Guitar, Play

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• The discovery of phobias by psychiatrists has done much to clear the atmosphere. Whereas in the old days a person would say: 'Let's get the heck out of here!' today she says: 'Let's get the heck out of here! I've got claustrophobia.

  Robert Benchley

  Discovery, Atmosphere, Done

  Robert Benchley (2016). “My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew”, p.262, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• A psychiatrist is the god of our age. But they cost money.

  Sylvia Plath

  Age, Cost

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.62, Anchor

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• The psychiatrists say that everybody should have a hobby. The hobby I recommend is advertising

  David Ogilvy

  Should Have, Hobbies, Advertising

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• I had to work with a psychiatrist.

  Felix Baumgartner

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

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• The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient.

  R. D. Laing

  Patient, Traveler, Psychiatry

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• From the time I was 16 and I had my own checking account, you'd think most young women would run out and buy clothes. No, I ran out and got myself a psychiatrist!

  Genie Francis

  Running, Thinking, Clothes

  "Genie Francis Promises to Deliver Another Emotional Note". Interview with Matt Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. January 30, 2009.

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• It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Psychology, Human Nature, Pity

  Observer 9 December (1934)

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• I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.

  Mordecai Richler

  Doctors, Essence, Problem

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

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• Her imagination painted Georgie twenty years later, sitting in leg irons before some Broken psychiatrist. "Well, you see, it all started with bubbles.

  Ilona Andrews

  Years, Iron, Imagination

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• Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Relationship, Letting Go, Loss

  "Good Grief". www.newyorker.com. February 1, 2010.

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• In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated on particular tastes or practices (the sexuality of the invert, the gerontophile, the fetishist), those which, in a diffuse manner, invest relationships (the sexuality of doctor and patient, teacher and student, psychiatrist and mental patient), those which haunt spaces (the sexuality of the home, the school, the prison)- all form the correlate of exact procedures of power.

  Michel Foucault

  Teacher, Children, School

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.47, Vintage

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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