Words matter. These are the best Psychiatry Quotes from famous people such as Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Alice Weaver Flaherty, Rob Lowe, Laurence J. Peter, Harry Stack Sullivan, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and it’s only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.
Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.
I’ve had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months – it’s sort of like getting your oil checked – I ask, ‘I’m not an actual narcissist, am I?’ The learned men of psychiatry assure me that I meet none of the medical criteria.
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents’ shortcomings.
If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work – work the like of which I do not know.
To have been able to write the books I wanted to write, on demanding subjects like war and the history of psychiatry, and for them to have sold in the numbers they have – and then go around saying: ‘Actually, I’d also like to have won the Costa Book of the Year?’ That would be ridiculous.
The other thing that happened was my last military assignment – this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn’t like you.
I think, when it comes to psychiatry, that a lot of people are overmedicated. I think when it comes to ECT a lot of people go through too much. I think there’s a lot of guesswork in psychiatry.
What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put on as rigorous a level as psychopharmacology.
My philosophy is really based on humility. I don’t think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is clinical neuroscience, based on a much deeper understanding of the brain.
I say I’m an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I’ve been trying to turn it back into myth again.
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
I do a lot of research. For ‘I Am Legend’, I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.
Everybody believes in psychiatry; it’s supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I’d concede, but there is no physical proof.
My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.
There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.
I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.
But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.
I trained in psychiatry in the 1970s, and much of our training was about what was then psychoanalytic theory, with a little bit of theory from Jungian psychology and a few other places.
There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, you know, Superman’s X-ray vision into the soul. One of the reasons I left psychiatry is that I didn’t believe that.
I don’t like psychiatry. I don’t believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.
The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.
