A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money.
A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergere and looks at the audience.
(n.) The application of the healing art to mental diseases.
[A]ll mental disorders are in some sense passionate convictions about the situation of the self in the world.
The maladies of the spirit alone, in abstracto, that is, error and sin, can be called diseases of the mind only per analogiam. They come not within the jurisdiction of the physician, but that of the t...
Imagine a psychiatrist sitting down with a broken human being saying, I am here for you, I am committed to your care, I want to make you feel better, I want to return your joy to you, I don't know how...
The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them.
The four-letter word for psychotherapy is 'talk'.
I believe that this neglected wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.
On Prozac, Sisyphus might well push the boulder back up the mountain with more enthusiasm and creativity. I do not want to deny the benefits of psychoactive medication. I just want to point out that S...
The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else's.
Nostalgia was diagnosed [as a medical illness] at a time when art and science had not yet entirely severed their umbilical ties and when the mind and body internal and external well-being were treated...
Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is fa...
Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Je découvris qu'en bluffant les psychiatres on pouvait tirer des trésors inépuisables de divertissement gratifiants: vous les menez habilement en bateau, leur cachez soigneusement que vous connaissez...
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.
Those modern analysts they charge so much! In my day for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat...