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Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the unclean person.
Who needs psychiatrists? Who needs grief counsellors and life coaches and motivational speakers? Fuck all that! Just stare at the night sky and let yourself get lost in it every now and then.
Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy.
Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into the powers benumbed in our personalities by our prevailing culture.
medi-techs. She wanted a
The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world (of social convention) but not of the world.
I am convinced that nine out of every ten persons seeing a psychiatrist do not need one. They need someone who will love them with God's love ... and they will get well.
My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.
We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.
people, the kind of man who
Psychiatry causes so much death.
You psychologists focus on what is wrong with people; I want to focus on what is right and what could be right.
People with imagination
I feel sorry for every Therapist, Psychologist, and Psychiatrist I've ever met. I know I've put thoughts in their mind they will never forget.
Those that are above business.
Internists know everything but do nothing; surgeons know nothing but do everything; psychiatrists know nothing and do nothing; and pathologists know everything and do everything, but it is too late.
The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history ...
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
Doctors treat diseases, but they also treat people, and this precondition of their professional existence sometimes pulls them in two directions at once.
The psychiatric endeavor - voodoo, really - is premised on the medicalization of misconduct.
Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent ... and remarkably popular products and practices.
Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning.
The Anti-christ of mental health and emotional maturity.
If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
Psychiatry doesn't heal, it controls, and it doesn't deal with the soul, but with the brain. It is the ultimate weapon against spiritual conscience, when the educational system and the social structure seem to fail in producing functional slaves.
Where I come from these days, anybody who isn't seeing a therapist needs to.
And I know about psychologists, when they're writing down what you're saying they're really writing down how much money they're going to get when they sell their latest yacht, because they're all yuppies with no respect. ...
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self.
Going to a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things a person can do.
Anyone living in Los Angeles who says they don't need a psychiatrist, needs a psychiatrist.
The only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
Doctors who spend more time talking into their tape recorders instead of looking into the eyes of their patients. (Spare us the "HMOs only give us so much time" diatribe. Medicine is about giving scared people comfort and help for people whose pain level is matched only by their anxiety level.)
People who seek attention, need all the help they can get.
Psychotherapy
A long, drawn out process consisting of subtle probings of the human mind, whereby women are blamed for all of Freud's shortcomings.
Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.
I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.
In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.
If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility
Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.
I always wanted to be a psychiatrist.
Eugen Bleuler (who in 1911 coined the word 'schizophrenia') once said that in the end his patients were stranger to him than the birds in his garden. But if they're strangers to us, what are we to them? (26)
The neurotic rich, as one doctor he knew used to term his clientele. The worried well.
We divide the roles of mystic, doctor, therapist, artist, herbalist, naturalist, and storyteller into separate, often inimical professions. In most other societies, there was one word, one job assignment, for somebody who was all these things at once.
Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions.
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows what it is or how to do it.
Psychologists are men with nothing in their own minds, searching in the minds of others for an idea-in order to kill it.
Some people get therapy, some people get to make movies.
My mom and my stepdad are both therapists.
Don't you think we're oversexed?" "You're the shrink," I said. "You tell me." "Yes," she said. "I believe we are." "What should we do about it?" I said. "Encourage the pathology," Susan said, and smiled her rebelangel smile at me.
Many people say that psychiatrists just want to push drugs. Well I seriously have to say, without medication, I'd be locked up in a VA hospital somewhere.
Most psychologists/philosophers we've learned about have experienced severe depressions, attempted suicide, were considered 'freaks' or 'insane' by their peers, locked themselves in their rooms, felt socially isolated, were either celibate or extremely promiscuous, and rarely found 'love
Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow.
Accountants, they have a wild side to them.
I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human.
Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
Psychiatrists urge me to take my tranquilizers. When I don't they become agitated. I take their pills to calm them down.
Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.
One of the downsides of working in philosophy is that it attracts a lot of people with mental-health problems.
So we had psychiatrists and counselors and therapists around the set regularly, especially for those scenes in which Jason would be dealing with a patient to make sure we were doing it all appropriately.
The rich. You know why they're so odd? Because they can afford to be.
Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.
A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Lachrymal counsellors, with one foot in the cave of despair, and the other invading the peace of their friends, are the paralyzers of action, the pests of society, and the subtlest homicides in the world; they poison with a tear; and convey a dagger to the heart while they press you to their bosoms.
I don't know how people can live without a therapist.
Sick ones cannot teach you to be well. Psychiatrists have a high suicide rate. Why do you think they can help you live happily, or add to your vitality? Physicians are not the healthiest of men by far. Why do you think they can cure you?
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
I'm not a psychiatrist.
My psychiatrist can lick your psychiatrist.
Songwriting is the cheapest psychiatrist I know.
The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.
The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.
My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.
I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists
I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.
Depressives kill themselves. Psychotics, rocked in the poison cradles of their own egos, want to do everyone handy a favor and take them along. I'm
Psychotherapy is the art of finding the angel of hope in the midst of terror, despair and madness.
I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession.
We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist.
I don't know what a shrink would call me. I don't want to know.
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly technical terms used to identify psychiatric illnesses and interventions are simply dyphemisms and euphemisms.
If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.
There are more Physitians in health then drunkards.
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness
Psychotherapy is the prostitution of friendship.
People talked more openly to a psychiatrist than they did to a priest because a doctor couldn't threaten them with Hell.
The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.
At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find how to identify, and beam messages to, people of high anxiety, body consciousness, hostility, passiveness, and so on.
Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones.
Since when did psychiatry become one big, fat Myspace survey?
Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.
therapist who is able to think and connect while struggling with feelings that are vicariously linked to the patient's internal states. Returning