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Quotes About Psychiatrist

How astonishingly intimate the business of fiction is, more intimate than anything that issues from the psychiatrist's couch or even the lovers' bed. You see the soul, pinned and wriggling on the wall.
~ Martin Amis
Thinking made her throat ache. That was a good reason not to think about seeing a psychiatrist.
~ Arundhati Roy
He looked and sounded exactly like a real psychiatrist. Until he opened his mouth. Let's ask God, he said.
~ Augusten Burroughs
When your psychiatrist forgets to look at the clock and is hanging on your every word, that's when you know, out of all his patients, you are the sickest. He
~ Augusten Burroughs
Normal people hadn't been molested or reared by a clinically psychotic mother, an alcoholic father, or a perversely mad psychiatrist who wore a Santa hat and performed toilet bowl readings. These were normal people, and I lived among them now. I thought, This must be what I want.
~ Augusten Burroughs
When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and the dignity of love.
~ Ayn Rand
I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way. I'd do anything to make it up to everyone. And to not have to see a psychiatrist, who explains to me about being passive aggressive.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I know that things get worse before they get better because that's what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way. I'd do anything to make it up to everyone. And to not have to see a psychiatrist, who explains to me about being "passive aggressive." And to not have to take the medicine he gives me, which is too expensive for my dad. And to not have to talk about bad memories with him. Or be nostalgic about bad things.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Eu sei que provoquei tudo isso. Sei que mereço. Eu tento de tudo para não ser assim. Faço de tudo para agradar a todos. E não tenho de ver meu psiquiatra, que me explique sobre ser agressivo-passivo. E não tenho de tomar o remédio que ele me passa, que é caro demais para meu pai. E não tenho de falar de minhas lembranças com ele. Ou ser nostálgico com coisas ruins.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I think he was especially happy because I used to kiss this boy in the neighborhood a lot when I was very little, and even though the psychiatrist said it was very natural for little boys and girls to explore things like that, I think my father was afraid anyway. I guess that's natural, but I'm not sure why.
~ Stephen Chbosky
After a year in therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, 'Maybe life isn't or everyone.
~ Larry Brown, Big Bad Love
Taquipsiquia» es una palabra que yo no conocía. La oí por primera vez en labios del primer psiquiatra del que fui paciente, un hombre tierno y humano a quien guardo gratitud. La taquipsiquia es como la taquicardia, pero para la actividad mental. Los pensamientos son erráticos, discontinuos, estridentes. Se agitan en todos los sentidos, demasiado rápido. Se arremolinan e hieren. Son vrittis pero centuplicados, una tempestad de vrittis, vrittis bajo el efecto de la cocaína. Esto
~ Emmanuel Carrère
No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.
~ Eric Berne
Space travelers in the gray mists of time? An inadmissible question to academic scientists. Anyone who asks questions like that ought to see a psychiatrist.
~ Erich von Däniken
I saw a psychiatrist when I was younger because I had ADHD, and I had some problems with authority, so I guess I can kind of relate to that in a way. I know what it's liked to be probed and to be asked questions where people are looking for a certain answer and are trying to pull something out of your answer.
~ Alfie Allen
When I'm feeling awful, music is the only thing that releases the pressure. It's been the best psychiatrist I've ever had.
~ Hank Williams III
Viktor Frankl, the psychiatrist and Nazi concentration camp survivor who wrote the classic Man's Search for Meaning, drew a similar social-psychological conclusion: deceitful, inauthentic individual existence is the precursor to social totalitarianism.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
I would say I see myself as a psychiatrist in remission.
~ Charles Krauthammer
And what's this about "swimming with dolphins"? I pulled a face. 'Where would you find a dolphin anyway?' 'We'll find one. No problem. The real problem is I can't swim. That's one of the reasons I need a helper'. 'You don't need a helper'. I mumbled it loud enough for him to hear. 'You need a psychiatrist'.
~ Bill Condon
I've struggled with depression, and the signs that I was falling apart - having heart palpitations at 4 A.M. - were there for a long time before I paid attention. Even when my psychiatrist gave me a questionnaire, I found myself trying to circle the answers that made me seem like I wasn't a wreck. I've since learned to listen to my body.
~ Allison Pearson
So you're a psychiatrist now, Cassie?" She gave him the half-smile again. "You don't need to be a psychiatrist to know a psychopath," she began, "any more than you need to be a cop to know a killer.
~ Harlan Coben
Don't they give you happy pills in this place?
~ Simone Elkeles
As a dancer, you dance and you shut up. You don't open your mouth. I started using the media as psychiatrists, I guess, they were someone to talk to.
~ Sergei Polunin