Psychiatry Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.

  Sigmund Freud

  Family, Girl, Fall

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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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• Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Neurology, Should, Organs

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• I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.

  Kirstie Alley

  Believe, Psychotic, Psychiatrist

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

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• The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Temptation, Foreign Policy

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• There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, you know, Superman's X-ray vision into the soul. One of the reasons I left psychiatry is that I didn't believe that.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian and Jungian psychiatry, beyond the dubious psi-realms of Dr. Rhine, beyond the areas policed by the commissars and priests and motivations-research men, far, far beyond the mad, beat, half-hysterical laughter... the utterly unknown still is and the eerie and ghostly lurk, as much wrapped in mystery as ever.

  Fritz Leiber

  Laughter, Motivation, Dark

  Fritz Leiber (2016). “The Second Fritz Leiber MEGAPACK®”, p.91, Wildside Press LLC

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• Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.

  Chris Cleave

  Doctors, Giving, Pickles

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.

  Tom Cruise

  Hilarious, Pseudoscience, Ritalin

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• The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.

  Mason Cooley

  Sad, Interesting, Office

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• Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who needs a psychiatrist must be crazy.

  Harry Segall

  Crazy, Believe, Men

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• After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.

  Morton Feldman

  Helping Others, Jew, Gentiles

  Morton Feldman (2000). “Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman”

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• Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

  Ross Macdonald

  Trying, Influence, Made

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• Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.

  Carl Jung

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

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• Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Creativity, Self, Creating

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• Psychiatry is all biological and all social. There is no mental function without brain and social context. To ask how much of mind is biological and how much social is as meaningless as to ask how much of the area of a rectangle is due to its width and how much to its height

  Leon Eisenberg

  Brain, Mind, Height

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• Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphsof psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

  Johan Huizinga

  War, Lying, Mean

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• The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.

  Karl Kraus

  Father, Example, Causes

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• I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession.

  Rooney Mara

  Profession

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• That's the New York thing, isn't it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be before they had therapy.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  New York, Crazy, People

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• In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of an acrobat - walking a tightrope over memory and speculation, instinct and theory, feeling and denial.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Art, Memories, Discovery

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• The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence.

  Michel Foucault

  Broken, Silence, Syntax

  Michel Foucault, Keith Hoeller, Ludwig Binswanger, Jacob Needleman (1984). “Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry”

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• LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to deep realms of the psyche that have not yet been discovered and acknowledged by mainstream psychology and psychiatry. They also reveal new possibilities and mechanisms of therapeutic change and personality transformation.

  Stanislav Grof

  Powerful, Unique, Personality

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

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