Psychiatrist Quotes

• I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Hate, Humorous

  "Laugh Off: The Comedy Showdown Between Real Life and the Pros". Book by Bob Fenster, 2005.

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• We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves. (p. 221)

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Change, Creating, People Changing

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• My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Beauty, Crazy

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• Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Dream, Looks

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• A mental healer may be a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist may or may not be a mental healer.

  R. D. Laing

  May, Healer

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• The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

  Sigmund Freud

  Crazy, People, Mad

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• When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press

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• I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Marriage, Hilarious

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• Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.

  Rudolf Dreikurs

  Education, Dream, Reality

  Rudolf Dreikurs (2013). “The Challenge of Marriage”, p.94, Taylor & Francis

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• Don't believe everything you hear - even in your own mind.

  Daniel Amen

  Basketball, Believe, Mind

  Daniel Amen (2008). “Healing the Hardware of the Soul: Enhance Your Brain to Improve Your Work, Love, and Spiritual Life”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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  The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.

  Eric Berne

  Hero, Men, Wife

  Eric Berne (2011). “Sex in Human Loving”, Tantor eBooks

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• When children are allowed to help make family decisions, they tend to be much more supportive and happier with family life. Also when allowed to help make rules, they will follow them much closer than if rules are forced on them. All these add up to a happier home for all.

  Rudolf Dreikurs

  Family, Happy, Children

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• A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Science, Men, Air

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• I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

  Richard Lewis

  Funny, Humorous, Intelligence

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• I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.

  Tammy Faye Bakker

  Shopping, Cheaper, Tammy

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• My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him.

  Jim Carrey

  Life, Death, Insanity

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• Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more connected we become.

  Frank Pittman

  Love, Positive, Marriage

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  Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.'

  Ronnie Shakes

  Funny, Eye, Years

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• Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Life, Forgiveness, Spiritual

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• To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

  David Viscott

  Love, Friendship, Marriage

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• Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've led their lives. It also reflects the inner work they've done, their efforts to heal anger, hatred, or self-loathing, which poison us like toxic fumes.

  Judith Orloff

  Love, Positive, Anger

  Judith Orloff (2004). “Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love”, p.25, Harmony

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• Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.

  Thomas Szasz

  Medicine, Experts, Mendacity

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.162, Transaction Publishers

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