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Showing posts with label Psychiatry Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Psychiatry Quotes. Show all posts
Those modern analysts, they ch...
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 him - that included a choice of any two vegetables.
The trouble with being a hypoc...
The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.
The point of therapy is get un...
The point of therapy is get unhooked, not to thrash around on how you got hooked.
The point of therapy is get un...
The point of therapy is get unhooked, not to thrash around on how you got hooked.
The best cure for hypochondria...
The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else's.
Schizophrenic behaviour is a s...
Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
Psychiatry enables us to corre...
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents shortcomings.
Psychiatrists classify a perso...
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.
Mental health problems do not ...
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.
It might be said of psychoanal...
It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.
It is almost impossible to be ...
It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius.
Involuntary mental hospitaliza...
Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it.
Institutional psychiatry is a ...
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the intellectual expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-medical jargon that parodies the concepts of science. The social style conforms to the political expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-liberal social movement that parodies the ideals of freedom and rationality.
If you talk to God, you are pr...
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
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