They safely cured the world of sadness, wiser the Pfizer for it?
On having a backup plan: "Always a good plan anytime you want to follow your dream - I love writing, acting, and psychiatry - there are crazy people everywhere which means I can take my career anywher...
(n.) The application of the healing art to mental diseases.
Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but i...
[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...
The medical profession's classic prescription for coping with such predicaments, Primum non nocere (First, do no harm), sounds better than it is. In fact, it fails to tell us precisely what we need to...
The ethics of psychiatric therapy is the very negation of the ethics of political liberty. The former embraces absolute power, provided it is used to protect and promote the patient's mental health. T...
Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world.
What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.
Toni hears voices," said Trapp. "But who is this Dr. Ellsworth to tell her she's a schizophrenic? Maybe she just perceives better than the rest of us. Maybe the voices she hears are just uncommunicate...
The point of therapy is get unhooked not to thrash around on how you got hooked.
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...
A neurotic is the man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergere and looks at the audience.
I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year then I'm going to Lourdes.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.
Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
If you talk to God, you are praying If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveller with his patient.
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