Psychiatry Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think people who go to a psychiatrist ought to have their heads examined.

  Jane Ace

  Thinking, People, Psychiatrist

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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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• the idea of a finished human product not only appears presumptuous but even, in my opinion, lacks any strong appeal. Life is struggle and striving, development and growth - and analysis is one of the means that can help in this process. Certainly its positive accomplishments are important, but also the striving itself is of intrinsic value.

  Karen Horney

  Strong, Struggle, Mean

  Karen Horney (2013). “Self-Analysis”, p.303, Routledge

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

  Ben Barnes

  Dad, Doctors, Professors

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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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• Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Neurology, Should, Organs

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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 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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• LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.

  Stanislav Grof

  Telescopes, Psychedelic, Lsd

  "LSD Psychotherapy". Book by Stanislav Grof, 1980.

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• The word soul has lost its meaning and even its plausibility.... Faith, hope and love can no longer be seen simply as virtues or graces; they are processes in flesh and blood... (the clergyman) will find that whether he wants it or not, he is also a front-line mental health worker or he will be so regarded by the specialists in mental health. It is on the pastoral role and the tasks of shepherding that the psychological disciples have the greatest impact in theological work.

  Paul Pruyser

  Past, Impact, Blood

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