Psychiatry Quotes - Page 4

• miracles occur in psychoanalysis as seldom as anywhere else.

  Karen Horney

  Miracle, Psychoanalysis

  Karen Horney (1950). “The Collected Works of Karen Horney: Self analysis. Neurosis and human growth”

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• Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the point of scandal, in certain cases related to psychiatry.

  Michel Foucault

  Medicine, Support, Political

  Source: www.nicklewis.org

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• As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist has a love disorder of one sort or another, and each has a story to tell - of love lost or denied, love twisted or betrayed, love perverted or shackled to violence. Broken attachments litter the office floors like pick-up sticks. People appear with frayed seams and spilling pockets.

  Diane Ackerman

  Lost Love, Attachment, People

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.136, Vintage

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

  Erica Jong

  Men, He Man, Psychiatrist

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

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• The Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of monsters. In their view, the monsters reach up, grab you by the ankles, and try to drag you down.

  Doris Lessing

  Dark, Views, White

  Doris May Lessing (1996). “Putting questions differently: interviews with Doris Lessing, 1964-1994”

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• Psychiatry is a dirty mirror.

  Anne Sexton

  Dirty, Mirrors

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

  Sigmund Freud

  Running, Attitude, Civilization

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• The last four years of psychoanalysis are a waste of money.

  Nora Ephron

  Years, Four, Lasts

  "I Feel Bad About My Neck" by Nora Ephron, www.nytimes.com. August 20, 2006.

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• This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one in a test tube, or has in any way come into a relationship with it as he has with the other objects of his daily experience.

  John B. Watson

  Psychology, Soul, Religion

  John B. Watson (2017). “Behaviorism”, p.21, Routledge

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• Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.

  Gordon Allport

  Focus, Agents, Release

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• The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Reality, Morality, Slave

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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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• Where I come from these days, anybody who isn't seeing a therapist needs to.

  Edna Buchanan

  Needs, Therapists, These Days

  Edna Buchanan (2014). “The Britt Montero Series (Omnibus Edition)”, p.1443, Diversion Books

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• I hope what I do when I draw from other people's lives is pay tribute. To try to understand what it means in our society to be silenced. To try to understand how class and gender intersect with that. To try to understand how being named and classified within the context of psychiatry can intersect with all that, as well.

  Kate Zambreno

  Mean, Class, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Skills, Magic, Physicians

  Phyllis Bottome (1943). “Survival”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.

  Carrie Fisher

  Mom, Mental Illness, Breakdown

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• I think that's a major reason. Instead of turning in their own lives to philosophy, religion, love, family life, or nature, they think of psychiatry; and today that means the "pill" as an ultimate answer. Also, if you have a desire for social control, "benevolent" control and "benevolent" authority, then again biological psychiatry offers a tremendous opportunity.

  Peter Breggin

  Philosophy, Mean, Opportunity

  Source: whale.to

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• The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers for arousing false memories of childhoood sexual abuse.

  Martin Gardner

  Memories, Abuse, Growing

  Martin Gardner (1996). “Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher”

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• My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

  Ben Barnes

  Dad, Doctors, Professors

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• Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but it cannot--despite the pretensions and protestations of psichiatrists--be both.

  Thomas Szasz

  Disease, Helping, Medical

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences”, p.324, Syracuse University Press

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• We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so carefully selected that they will perhaps never be aware of their loss of personhood.

  Carl Rogers

  Mean, Loss, Growing Knowledge

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.382, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common wheel.

  Edward Thorndike

  Nature, Wheels, Common

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• The educational system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape inspection.

  Paul Popenoe

  Education, Country, Children

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• The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religion, Kind, Share

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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