Psychiatrist Quotes - Page 9

• I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

  Benjamin Carson

  School, Reality, Firsts

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• I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Littles, Kind, Psychologist

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• If I went to a psychiatrist, it would be a long session. I've always thought that I do have a number of issues that probably need dealing with, because I am quite odd in some ways.

  Simon Cowell

  Numbers, Issues, Long

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

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• Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Mistake, Past, Choices

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• Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.

  John Irving

  Umpires, Surfing, Novelists

  "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (Eighth Series)". Book edited by George Plimpton, 1988.

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• There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists.

  Nicole Kidman

  Drug, Dresses, Toms

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• If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist.

  Ed Koch

  Issues, Vote, Agree

  "Outspoken Ed Koch’s best quotes" by Kevin Cirilli, www.politico.com. February 2, 2013.

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• Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.

  John Malkovich

  Writing, Shooting, Want

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• It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'

  Viggo Mortensen

  Needs, Helping, Idiot

  "Viggo Mortensen, King of The Road". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 23, 2009.

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• All that self-control stuff, I tried all that stuff from analysts. I went everywhere to these guys, every kind of anger-management, psychologist, psychiatrist. 'Get rid of my temper, get rid of my temper.' And there was only one guy who just said, 'I don't think this is related to, uh, issues. I think there has got to be something wrong.'

  Harvey Weinstein

  Thinking, Self, Issues

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• I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry about questions of real or unreal. They only talk out of expediency. It’s the system that matters. How the data arrange themselves inside it. Some are consistent, others fall apart.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Real, Fall, Mean

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• The night was full of horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts.

  Joseph Heller

  Night, Nuts, World

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• When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and the dignity of love.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Attention, Dignity

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.98, Penguin

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• This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, Doc, my brother’s crazy. He thinks he’s a chicken. The doctor says, Well, why don’t you turn him in? And the guy says, I would but I need the eggs. Well I guess that’s pretty much how I feel about relationships. You know they’re totally irrational and crazy and absurd but I guess we keep going through it because, uh, most of us need the eggs.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Brother, Crazy

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• I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

  James Thurber

  Life, Death, Simple

  James Thurber (1983). “Credos and Curios”, HarperCollins

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• I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it scared me too, that I might end up as a mother of 3 working in a psychiatrist's office, or renting surfboards...I guess I saw their lives as failed somehow, absent of the Big Win...What is fate was an inherited trait? What if luck came through the genetic line, and the ability to "succeed" at your chosen "direction" was handed down, just like the family china? Maybe I was destined to be a weed too.

  Deb Caletti

  Weed, Mother, Fate

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• I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.

  Ray Bradbury

  Believe, Needs

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.10, Hamilton Books

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• How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” “I don’t know. How many?” “Eight.” “Why?” “Oh, stop overanalyzing it.

  Dennis Lehane

  Eight, Doe, Screws

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• Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Thinking, Differences, Psychotic

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• One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

  Saul Bellow

  Existentialism, Murder

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, "Stop trying to make me like you," and what a sobering and welcome smack in the face that statement was. Yet somehow, every day of my life is still a campaign for popularity, or better yet, a crowded funeral.

  John Waters

  Funeral, Trying, Campaigns

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.30, Macmillan

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• I am a financial planner, not a psychiatrist, but I do know that your net worth will rise to meet your self-worth only if your self-worth rises to accept what can be yours.

  Suze Orman

  Self Worth, Financial, Accepting

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• Anybody who is thinking of applying for the Scotland job in the next eight or nine years should go get themselves checked out by about 15 psychiatrists.

  Martin O'Neill

  Jobs, Thinking, Eight

  "Ireland's Martin O'Neill now faces battle to stop career petering out" by Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2015.

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• Sometimes you're a psychiatrist and sometimes you're a group therapist. The dynamics in between people and the misgivings sometimes that artists have when they get into the studio because they're under a different level of scrutiny. A lot of them can be insecure about it. My job is not simply to make musical determinations but sometimes to just keep people from flipping out during the process.

  Todd Rundgren

  Determination, Jobs, Insecure

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the music. For what has been spoiled by the father can only be made good by a father, just as what has been spoiled by the mother can only be repaired by a mother. The disastrous repetition of the family pattern could be described as the psychological original sin, or as the curse of the Atrides running through the generations.

  Carl Jung

  Mother, Running, Daughter

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1963). “Mysterium coniunctionis, an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of psychic opposites in alchemy”

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