Quotes About Psychiatry

I think almost all manic depressives exhibit some kind of criminal behaviour, even if it's something as minimal as shoplifting, but then they often go on to bigger and better things - in my case, it was fraud.

I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.

Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.

T]here is no consensus in the psychiatric community that Dr. Lecter should be termed a man. He has long been regarded by his professional peers in psychiatry, many of whom fear his acid pen in the professional journals, as something entirely Other. For convenience, they term him "monster".

Krissa had since learned a great deal about the drug Lithium and was now aware of how controversial it was.

The greatest handicap faced by the psychiatrist was, he argued, the inability to experience their patients' conditions; but hashish gave them a means to do so, safely and reversibly: Can we be certain we are in a condition to understand these sick people when they tell us of their observations? [...] To comprehend the ravings of a madman, it is necessary to have raved oneself, but without having lost the awareness of one's madness. -Mike Jay

The institutions of psychiatry, law enforcement, and government have proved that no matter what your resources, you cannot reliably control the conduct of crazy people.

He's the one ought to have his head examined.

The suicide risk for mental health patients goes up during changes in medication.

I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

Soy más fuerte de lo que parezco y trabajaré más duro que cualquier hombre. Además, le ofrezco mi asesoramiento psiquiátrico para ese desorden de personalidad tan problemático que tiene.

My weaker sex is still believed by most to be highly susceptible to fits and hysteria. I, being a woman, had better odds of becoming a future mental patient than of becoming a psychiatrist.

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.

I make her leave on her stockings and high heels. I am a freak. I cannot bear the human being in present state, I must be fooled. the psychiatrists must have a word for it, and I have a word for the psychiatrists.

The maliciousness of psychiatry is that it promotes itself as a medical discipline, although it is actually only part of the state authority.24 Therein

The term 'deinstitutionalization' conceals some simple truths, namely, that old, unwanted persons, formerly housed in state hospitals, are now housed in nursing homes; that young, unwanted persons, formerly also housed in state hospitals, are now housed in prisons or parapsychiatric facilities; and that both groups of inmates are systematically drugged with psychiatric medications.

The fatal weakness of most psychiatric historiographies lies in the historians' failure to give sufficient weight to the role of coercion in psychiatry and to acknowledge that mad-doctoring had nothing to do with healing.

The ethics of psychiatric therapy is the very negation of the ethics of political liberty. The former embraces absolute power, provided it is used to protect and promote the patient's mental health. The latter rejects absolute power, regardless of its aim or use.

Incarceration in a mental hospital is unlawful deprivation of liberty, that mental illnesses are fictitious diseases, and that coercive psychiatry is social control, not medical care.

The insanity defense is not merciful. Involuntary mental hospitalization is not a treatment. Both are coercive methods of social control. Both rest on attributing an absence of mens rea to the actor. Both result in the protected person's being deprived of liberty. Both function as tactical weapons in psychiatry's war on dignity, liberty, and responsibility.

There is no evidence that suicide prevention prevents suicide. Psychiatrists and psychiatric hospitals are regularly sued and found liable for patient suicides. Psychiatrists kill themselves at three times the rate of the general public.

Psikiyatrda [aliénist] olduÄŸu gibi rahipte de, her zaman sorgu yarg?c?ndan bir ÅŸeyler vard?r. –Marcel Proust (1871-1922)

Birçok insan hastad?r. Fakat yaln?zca psikanalistler bunu gurur duyulacak bir ÅŸey olarak görür.

Psikiyatri –burada bu terimi psikanalizi, psikolojiyi ve bütün ak?l saÄŸl??? mesleklerini içine alacak ÅŸekilde kullan?yorum– modern toplumlar?n en önemli kurumlar?ndan biridir ve "ak?l hastal???n?n diÄŸer hastal?klar gibi bir hastal?k olduÄŸu" ÅŸeklindeki postulat-önermeye s?k?ca baÄŸl?d?r. Bu önerme bir yaland?r.