Psychiatry Quotes - Page 6

• Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.

  Thomas Szasz

  Children, Psychology, Child Psychology

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• You know what? I’m sure drug dealers on the street, in some way, they are making money. That’s what I equate it to. Here is the thing: you have to understand, with psychiatry, there is no science behind it. And to pretend that there is a science behind it is criminal

  Tom Cruise

  Drug, Criminals, Way

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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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• I come from a liberal tradition. I'm Jewish. My dad was a liberal. What I've found is that people who see themselves as thoughtful, caring, educated and informed have swallowed psychiatry as the way.

  Peter Breggin

  Dad, Caring, Thoughtful

  Source: whale.to

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• When I am in Egypt, I am phoned because I am listed in the medical directory under "Mental Health and Psychiatry." And of course, I see very few people, because I give much more time to writing. So I cannot say that I really stopped medicine, but I practice medicine - or psychiatry - in a very different way. In an artistic way!

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Writing, Egypt, Practice

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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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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• All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution.

  Anais Nin

  Art, Analysis, Evolution

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• I grew tired of religion some time not long after birth. I believe in people, I believe in humans, I believe in a car, but I don't believe something I can't have absolutely no evidence of for millenniums. And it's funny, people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and they go to church.

  John Malkovich

  Believe, Tired, Thinking

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• Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

  Ed Koch

  People, Feel Good, Rewriting

  Ed Koch (1994). “Ed Koch on Everything: Movies, Politics, Personalities, Food and Other Stuff”, Birch Lane Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 destructive impact of psychiatry upon our civilization has been given far too little attention, and the role of psychiatry in Nazi Germany almost no attention. It is entirely possible that without psychiatry the holocaust could never have taken place.

  Peter Breggin

  Taken, Impact, Civilization

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• ...a student attains 'higher order thinking' when he no longer believes in right or wrong". "A large part of what we call good teaching is a teacher´s ability to obtain affective objectives by challenging the student's fixed beliefs. ...a large part of what we call teaching is that the teacher should be able to use education to reorganize a child's thoughts, attitudes, and feelings.

  Benjamin Bloom

  Education, Teacher, Children

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• No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.

  John B. Watson

  Ideas, Soul, Religion

  John B. Watson (2017). “Behaviorism”, p.20, Routledge

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• All our anxieties relate to time. The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes that are the inheritances of what has been or with the fears, anxieties, worries, that are the imaginings of what will be.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Worry, Anxiety, Despair

  "Lift Up Your Heart". Book by Fulton J. Sheen. Chapter: "Sanctifying the Moment", 1950.

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