Quotes About Psychiatric

Depression is not a psychiatric illness, but a systemic disease.

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions

Studies show that neurotic and psychiatric disorders are more common among those who attempt to keep conscious control of life and suppress its unwelcome quirks. Sanity, paradoxically, may lie in accepting that you are not in control.

management is based on the psychological theory of operant conditioning. It emphasizes the need for concrete and immediate reinforcements, such as housing or a gift card, in exchange for good behavior, including abstinence, work, and compliance with psychiatric medicines. Contingency management swaps one set of rewards, such as meth and heroin, for another set of rewards, such as gift cards and apartment units.

Psychologists are bound by an ethical code not to discuss their patients, unless a patient poses a serious threat to his own life or the lives of others. I was allowed to read his file. There appeared to be no medical or psychiatric problems with our suspect. I was reminded of the Station Strangler, who booked himself into hospital just before or after a murder.

If dissociation, then, has been understood by psychopathologists to imply among other things 'loss of consciousness,' the question that immediately presents itself, or so one might think, is: what exactly is being lost--in other words, what is meant by consciousness? It turns out that it is exceedingly difficult to find an answer to this question in the psychiatric literature despite the seeming centrality of the issue.

Even though I never found that antidepressants solved all my problems, they did help some. And even if it is a placebo, the fact that these drugs can make things easier, well, I have to at least give them credit for that. So I don't feel like it is harmful or wrong or anything to experiment with psychiatric drugs—under a doctor's supervision, of course.

Another key feature? Thanks to the commitment and common sense of Dr. Randy Dupont, clinical director of emergency psychiatric services at the University of Tennessee Medical Center and a founding member of the Memphis CIT, if the cops brought someone to the center for an assessment, they were not turned away with some bureaucratic excuse.

affect regulation and addictions. Dr. Jurist has served on the Neuropsychiatry service at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia campus, and on the Ethics committees of the New York State Psychiatric Institute and now of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association.