Quotes About Psychiatry

Joel Nigg] believes you can only ethically give out drugs if you are also at the same time trying to solve the deeper problem.

The term doesn't really make any sense, she said: we don't know what a "chemically balanced" brain would look like. People are told that drugs like antidepressants restore a natural balance to your brain, she said, but it's not true—they create an artificial state. The whole idea of mental distress being caused simply by a chemical imbalance is "a myth," she has come to believe, sold to us by the drug companies.

Psychiatrist to patient: Maybe you don't have a complex. Maybe you are inferior.

Quien no ha tenido como yo el privilegio de pasar buena parte de su vida en un manicomio tal vez ignore esta gran verdad: que todos los allí encerrados perciben claramente la locura de los demás, pero ninguno la propia.

I was reading this really interesting article in the American Psychiatric Journal.... research shows that going to church actually boosts your immune system, decreases your blood pressure, and reduces stress. It's kind of like an antioxidant from God.

Los psiquiatras hablaban estirando el dedo como batutas, hablaban de los otros, hablaban en tono falsamente afectuoso de los otros, del sufrimiento de los otros, de la angustia de los otros, de la perplejidad de los otros, sin entender que estaban muertos, Joana, definitivamente muertos, disertando sobre los vivos con la envidia que anima los gestos fosforescentes y blandos de los difuntos, sus órbitas huecas, sus enormes bocas sin dientes.

Anyone can look through my sketchbooks as long as they don't have a background in psychiatric medicine.

There is no psychiatric pattern which can predict who becomes an extremist - but they are all frustrated with their reality.

And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.

Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

If I had a whole other life, I'd be a psychiatrist.

You're not a nutcase if you want to go see a psychiatrist.

Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.

You may be guided by the unending effort of poets and artists, biologists and psychiatrists to describe that irreplaceable and still mysterious emotion so essential to the human condition, but all the search engines in the universe cannot compete with the first kiss.

I personally hate psychiatrists. When I was a kid, I saw quite a few of them, and they ruin everything.

Psychiatry causes so much death.

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

I think, when it comes to psychiatry, that a lot of people are overmedicated. I think when it comes to ECT a lot of people go through too much. I think there's a lot of guesswork in psychiatry.

Depression has existed as long as mankind itself, and certainly well before psychiatry, antidepressant medication, or the nation of America itself came into being.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

They had taken me to an exhibit called 'Psychiatry: Industry of Death' on Hollywood Boulevard, where a Scientologist told me psychiatrists set up the Holocaust. I feared I was being brain-washed. And then I lost it - big time.