Psychiatrist Quotes - Page 7

• A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.

  S. N. Behrman

  Simple, Discovery, People

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• It doesn’t matter how many years go by, how much therapy I embark on, how much I try to achieve that elusive thing known as perspective, which is supposed to put all past wrongs into their rightful and diminished place, that happy place where all the talk is of lessons learned and inner peace. No one will ever understand the potency of my memories, which are so solid and vivid that I don’t need a psychiatrist to tell me they are driving me crazy. My subconscious has not buried them, my superego has not restrained them. They are front and center, they are going on right now.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Memories, Crazy, Past

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' He wondered if his fellow Members weren't more in need of advice from psychiatrists than from economists at this point.

  John Fund

  Dog, Blue, House

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• It is amazing to observe how many psychologists and psychiatrists have accepted this sort of propaganda, and have come to believe that homosexual males and females are discretely different from persons who respond to natural stimuli. Instead of using these terms as substantives which stand for persons, or even as adjectives to describe persons, they may better be used to describe the nature of the overt sexual relations, or of the stimuli to which an individual erotically responds.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Believe, Gay, Males

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• A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.

  Fred Allen

  Humor, Men, Talking

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• Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Many of our inner conflicts are rooted in hate. This is why the psychiatrists say, "Love or perish." Hate is too great a burden to bear.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Cancer, Personality

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• Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and that fear of failure ran a strong second.

  Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

  Strong, War, Battle

  Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall (1954). “Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War”

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• I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, Two

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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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• Psychiatrists are usually very well imbued with the clinical role, where helping the sick person is the goal. And that's quite incompatible with the truthseeking role. That's probably true of the other fields, too, but maybe more so of the personalities that gravitate toward psychiatry. They tend to care about people and wish to be helpful.

  Park Dietz

  Sick, Goal, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting into. With novels, I'm kind of fly by night. It isn't something I can be really consistent with.

  Van Morrison

  Reading, Night, Kind

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.

  Nan Goldin

  Guilt, Priests, Jew

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when it hurts. It's supposed to. (46)

  Keith Ablow

  Hurt, Exit, Easy

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• It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide.

  Jodi Picoult

  Stupid, Buying, Belief

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Horse, School, Choices

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

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• If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.

  Timothy Leary

  Falling In Love, Never Fall In Love, Neurologists

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.81, Ronin Publishing

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• I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don't need it. It all comes out onstage.

  Joan Rivers

  Memorable, Years, Needs

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. June 09, 2010.

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• I don't need a psychiatrist.
  I can sort out my fears with my work.
  That's the privilege of all artists,
  to be able to sort out their unhappiness
  and their neuroses in order
  to create something.

  Michael Haneke

  Artist, Order, Needs

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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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• So the patient went to the mountains, and do you know what? Next day a telegram arrived for the psychiatrist. The patient said in the telegram, 'I am feeling very happy - why?'

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Next Day, Feelings

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• Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Doctors, Sight, Blood

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• The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith... are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely.

  Brock Chisholm

  Family, Children, Intelligent

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• ...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely.

  Brock Chisholm

  Family, Thinking, People

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• What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession.

  R. D. Laing

  Suicide, Wonder, Psychological

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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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