“ The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. ”
- Henry Kissinger- Copy
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“ Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. ”
- Samuel Goldwyn- Copy
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“ A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergere and looks at the audience. ”
- Bishop Mervyn Stockwood- Copy
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“ I knew immediately that this drug would have importance for psychiatry but, at that time, I would never have believed that this substance could be used in the drug scene, just for pleasure. For me it was a deep and mystical experience and not just an everyday pleasurable one… ”
- Albert Hofmann- Copy
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“ The difference between a neurotic, a psychotic, and a psychiatrist. The neurotic builds castles in the sky, the psychotic lives in them and the psychiatrist collects the rent. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ The difference between a neurotic, a psychotic, and a psychiatrist. The neurotic builds castles in the sky, the psychotic lives in them and the psychiatrist collects the rent. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ You go to psychiatrist when you're slightly cracked and keep going until you're completely broke. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ You go to psychiatrist when your slightly cracked and keep going until you're completely broke. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ I maintained that psychiatry, in the broadest sense, is a dialogue between the sick psyche and the psyche of the doctor, which is presumed to be 'normal.' It is a coming to terms between the sick personality and that of the therapist, both in principle equally subjective. ”
- Carl Gustav Jung- Copy
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“ It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone the two currents of my interest could flow together and in a united stream dig their own bed. Here was the empirical field common to biological and spiritual facts, which I had everywhere sought and nowhere found… ”
- Carl Gustav Jung- Copy
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“ Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the intellectual expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-medical jargon that parodies the concepts of science… ”
- Thomas Szasz- Copy
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“ We don't feel that anyone has ever been helped by psychiatry,... You see a kid with HDDD or whatever it's called, and he takes Ritalin, and you take a look later and find out that his life has been destroyed. ”
- Susan Taylor- Copy
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“ Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer. ”
- Thomas Szasz- Copy
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“ Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. ”
- Robert Hughes- Copy
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“ I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year, then I'm going to Lourdes. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
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“ Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. ”
- R. D. Laing- Copy
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“ A neurotic is the man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveller with his patient. ”
- R. D. Laing- Copy
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“ I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. ”
- Abraham Maslow- Copy
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“ The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else's. ”
- Goodman Ace- Copy
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“ Fortunately, analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. ”
- Karen Horney- Copy
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“ Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. ”
- Tony Goldwyn- Copy
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“ I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery. ”
- John Bradshaw- Copy
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“ Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. ”
- Ken Livingstone- Copy
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