Depression is rage spread thin.
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...
(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 best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else's.
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...
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...
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...
Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
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...
A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money.
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.
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...
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.
Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.
The four-letter word for psychotherapy is 'talk'.
The point of therapy is get unhooked not to thrash around on how you got hooked.
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.