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Psychiatry is a dirty mirror.
Psychiatry causes so much death
Psychiatry causes so much death.
All neurotics seek the religious
Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.
The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball.
I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession.
Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.
miracles occur in psychoanalysis as seldom as anywhere else.
Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.
The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient.
After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.
Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
I think people who go to a psychiatrist ought to have their heads examined.
I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.
Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.
Going to a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things a person can do.
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.
I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!
At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.
I think that one of the things that has happened is that psychiatry has become the religion of liberalism.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.
There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.
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.
This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.
If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.
Depression has existed as long as mankind itself, and certainly well before psychiatry, antidepressant medication, or the nation of America itself came into being.
The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and it's only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.
Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.
The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.
What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put on as rigorous a level as psychopharmacology.
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.
I trained in psychiatry in the 1970s, and much of our training was about what was then psychoanalytic theory, with a little bit of theory from Jungian psychology and a few other places.
I think, when it comes to psychiatry, that a lot of people are overmedicated. I think when it comes to ECT a lot of people go through too much. I think there's a lot of guesswork in psychiatry.
Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.
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.
My philosophy is really based on humility. I don't think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is clinical neuroscience, based on a much deeper understanding of the brain.
I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.
I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.
I've had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months - it's sort of like getting your oil checked - I ask, 'I'm not an actual narcissist, am I?' The learned men of psychiatry assure me that I meet none of the medical criteria.
But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.
To have been able to write the books I wanted to write, on demanding subjects like war and the history of psychiatry, and for them to have sold in the numbers they have - and then go around saying: 'Actually, I'd also like to have won the Costa Book of the Year?' That would be ridiculous.
The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.