Quotes About Psychiatry

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat! --- ANTONIN ARTAUD

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

Les asiles d'aliénés sont des réceptacles de magies noire, conscients et prémédités.

Is dat niet de kern van de psychiatrie, dat de patiënt verleid moet worden tot leven, al was het maar omdat psychiaters anders overbodig zouden worden? Elke beroepsgroep creëert zijn eigen perpetuum mobile.

The details of the process by which repression changes a possibility of pleasure into a source of 'pain' are not yet fully understood, or are not yet capable of clear presentation, but it is certain that all neurotic 'pain' is of this kind, is pleasure which cannot be experienced as such.

An important element in the theory of repression is the view that repression is not an event that occurs once but that it requires a permanent expenditure [of energy]. If this expenditure were to cease, the repressed impulse, which is being fed all the time from its sources, would on the next occasion flow along the channels from which it had been forced away, and the repression would either fail in its purpose or would have to be repeated an indefinite number of times.

In a work of psychiatry, only the patients' remarks interest me; in a work of criticism, only the quotations.

We all know perfectly well that the man who lives out his life as a consumer," he writes in "The Coming Crisis in Psychiatry," "a sexual partner, an 'other-directed' executive; who avoids boredom and anxiety by consuming tons of newsprint, miles of film, years of TV time; that such a man has somehow betrayed his destiny as a human being.

The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the 1950s.")

It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally premised on the idea that mental illness arises from unconscious psychological conflicts, his papers on cocaine make him one of the fathers of biological psychiatry, which is governed by the notion that mental distress is partly caused by a physical or chemical malfunction that can be treated with drugs.

Studies of the DSM-II found that when two psychiatrists consulted the same patient, they gave the same DSM diagnosis only between 32 and 42 percent of the time. Rates of consistency have improved since then, but the diagnosis of many mental disorders remains, despite pretensions to the contrary, more art than science.b

bitter fights over revisions for the DSM-V—which have included public denunciations of it by the chairmen of the task forces that produced the DSM-III and DSM-IV, respectively—suggest that psychiatric diagnosis may be more a matter of politics and marketing than either art or science. c

Studies of the DSM-II found that when two psychiatrists consulted the same patient, they gave the same DSM diagnosis only between 32 and 42 percent of the time.

I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.

Until we come up with an unequivocal blood test or the equivalent, we're all blowing smoke and don't know if what we call schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are one disorder or a dozen.

Until we come up with an unequivocal blood test or the equivalent, we're all blowing smoke and don't know if what we call schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are one disorder or a dozen.

I know that things get worse before they get better because that's what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big. a

I am convinced that nine out of every ten persons seeing a psychiatrist do not need one. They need someone who will love them with God's love...and they will get well.

The DSM-IV-TR is a 943-page textbook published by the American Psychiatric Association that sells for $99...There are currently 374 mental disorders. I bought the book...and leafed through it...I closed the manual. "I wonder if I've got any of the 374 mental disorders," I thought. I opened the manual again. And instantly diagnosed myself with twelve different ones.

Taquipsiquia» es una palabra que yo no conocía. La oí por primera vez en labios del primer psiquiatra del que fui paciente, un hombre tierno y humano a quien guardo gratitud. La taquipsiquia es como la taquicardia, pero para la actividad mental. Los pensamientos son erráticos, discontinuos, estridentes. Se agitan en todos los sentidos, demasiado rápido. Se arremolinan e hieren. Son vrittis pero centuplicados, una tempestad de vrittis, vrittis bajo el efecto de la cocaína. Esto

Una de las tareas más importantes de la psiquiatría es la psicoterapia: el medio por el que el psiquiatra cambia y modifica los mecanismos negativos de la personalidad de un individuo para hacerla más equilibrada y madura, pues encontrarse a sí mismo es la puerta de la felicidad. En

Hay una novedad en la psiquiatría americana: los sujetos adictos al psicoterapeuta son personas que sufren crisis de identidad, no se encuentran a sí mismas, están perdidas o no saben cómo son ni lo que quieren en la vida.

A variant of "Psychiatry" is "Archaeology" (title by courtesy of Dr. Norman Reider of San Francisco), in which the patient takes the position that if she can only find out who had the button, so to speak, everything will suddenly be all right. This results in a continual rumination over childhood happenings.

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