Quotes About Psychiatry

Irvin Yalom, the psychiatrist, wrote that it was "far better that [a patient make progress but] forget what we talked about than the opposite possibility (a more popular choice for patients)—to remember precisely what was talked about but to remain unchanged.

Dr. Spiro seems to think I don't know how to behave in a mental institution.

The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid.

Los psiquiatras se centran demasiado en la escena primaria y la privación preedípica, me parece, e ignoran el trauma de la escuela y los otros niños, que son crueles y despiadados

A racket is a family-authorized feeling used to replace an unacceptable and shameful feeling.

Psychiatrist David Shainberg argued that mental illness, which appears chaotic, is actually the reverse. Mental illness occurs when images of the self become rigid and closed, restricting an open creative response to the world.

For quite a while, the development of psychiatric medicine has been stifled by man-made concepts, gleaned from complex symptomatology rather than from brain research.

Psychiatry is the management of despair.

Importante papel está reservado aos psiquiatras. Aos profetas, acredito ainda mais nos profetas. Acho que eu seria mais útil se estudasse Medicina, de que vão adiantar no futuro as leis se agora já são o que se sabe. Uma psiquiatra maravilhosa. O chato é que quando leio um livro sobre doenças mentais, descubro em mim os sintomas de quase todas, uma psiquiatra por dentro demais da loucura.

The last of a train of psychiatrists would claim to have rehabilitated her, but Pooh Percy may simply have emerged from analysis—and a number of institutions—too thoroughly bored with rehabilitation to be violent anymore.

They would try to make me into a moron who liked television and new cars and frozen food. Don't you understand? Psychiatry is worse than communism. I refuse to be brainwashed. I won't be a robot!

Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.

If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

crazy starts with a misaligned brain,

It's funny - people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and THEY go to CHURCH.

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.

I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

I saw a study the other day showing that some atypical anti-psychotic was at least as good as mood stabilizers in preventing suicide. It's a very good thing to decrease suicide but we should care at least a little if I'm not killing myself because I feel better or if I just can't remember where I put the damn gun.

Although Dissociative Disorders have been observed from the beginnings of psychiatry, the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R Dissociative Disorders (Steinberg 1985) was the first diagnostic instrument for the comprehensive evaluation of dissociative symptoms and to diagnose the presence of Dissociative Disorders.

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

Miltown, Librium, Valium,

Doctor Harleen Quinzel, one of Arkham's most brilliant and dedicated psychiatrists, was no more. Electroshock. What a wonderful way of destroying a soul, the Joker thought as he watched Quinzel's eyes roll up into their sockets and dribble pour from between her lips.