Quotes About Psychiatry

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

We need either to get the primary care doctors out of psychiatry or to teach them how to do it and give them sufficient time to do it properly.

DSM-IV unwittingly contributed to three new false epidemics in psychiatry—the overdiagnosis of attention deficit, autism, and adult bipolar disorder.

Because of diagnostic inflation, an excessive proportion of people have come to rely on antidepressants, antipsychotics, antiaxiety agents, sleeping pills, and pain meds.

America is the paradise for psychiatrists.

Yeah, but these are crazy pills. Supposed to keep me from running amok or something." "How are they working out?" "Great. I just saunter amok these days.

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: Author.

Locked you in a padded cell, with a certificate signed by three doctors, and allowed you mail on alternate leap years.

...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.

I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession.

Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.

Apparently the demented mouse also suffered from an eating disorder

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

Der Anpassungstheorie liegen folgende Annahmen zugrunde: 1. Jede Gesellschaft als soche ist normal; 2. seelisch krann ist, wer von dem von der Gesellschaft favorisierten Persönlichkeitstyp abweicht; 3. das Gesundheitswesen im Bereich von Psychiatrie udn Psychotherapie verfolgt das Ziel, den einzelnen auf das Niveau des Durchschnittschmenschen zu bringen, unabhängig davon, ob dieser blind ist oder nicht blind.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

I'm not a doctor - so I can't describe flashbacks well - but it is like you're living it again.

Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.

daß in einem ehedem sehr bekannten psychiatrischen Lehrbuch die Frage: »Was ist Gerechtigkeit?« und die Antwort darauf: »daß der andere bestraft wird!« als ein Fall von Imbezillität angeführt werden, wogegen sie heute die Grundlage einer viel erörterten Rechtsauffassung bilden.

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.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars!

I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.

The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.