Quotes About Mental examination

The following day, Melvin Belli told Ruth he couldn't, in any capacity, work on the case, citing money and time as the main obstacles. "If," he told the L.A. Daily News, "I were to represent him, I'd want a thorough, thorough mental examination of him before I would consider going into the case; that would cost lots of money, and the family just can't afford it." Richard was not surprised by Belli's position.

would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot.' I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.

These people will think their way around an ice cream cone before ever giving it a lick.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

grip and focus beyond the powers of many of those who have spent a lifetime without their sanity being examined or questioned.

Diaries teach us that it is too much to be inside anybody's head. It is a horrible place. All that repetition; that endless analysis that doesn't analyze, just mulls a point over and over until it drops dead from banality.

I like the cerebral process.

So they decided to consult a cousin who was a prominent psychiatrist. He examined Antonio—whom he knew well, anyway—and declared him insane, which of course he wasn't, even by Italian standards.

I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.

Psychoanalysis

The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners of their psychology.

He is thinking about his brain. It strikes him that it is odd to have to use the thing that may not be working to consider the thing that isn't working.