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Quotes About Self-treatment

The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.
~ Evan Esar
A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
~ William Osler
They take antidepressants prescribed by their psychotherapists, confident that the biochemical and oedipal self can be treated in one room.
~ Sherry Turkle
third choice was to strike off toward some new projection—a new job, a better (different) relationship, a seductive ideology, or sometimes to drift into some unconscious "self-treatment plan" such as an addiction or an affair.
~ James Hollis