Psychiatrist Quotes - Page 11

• You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the early environment and the reasons for something that happened, but if you look at children of the same family -- children who have identical parents, go to identical schools, have an almost identical upbringing, and yet who have totally different experiences and neuroses -- you realize that what influences the children is not so much the obvious externals as their emotional experiences. Of course any psychiatrist knows that.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Children, School, Emotional

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• I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Death, Men, Anxiety

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• The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are going to reform intellect you don't start with psychiatrists. If you don't like our present social system or intellectual system the best thing you can do with either cops or psychiatrists is stay out of their way. You leave them 'till last.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Intellectual, Growth, Way

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.

  David Greenberg

  Children, Taken, Naughty

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• So we had psychiatrists and counselors and therapists around the set regularly, especially for those scenes in which Jason would be dealing with a patient to make sure we were doing it all appropriately.

  Alan Thicke

  Jason, Would Be, Patient

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• Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man; good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist

  Eric Idle

  Morning, Men, Bakers

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• The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.

  Dario Argento

  Film, Horrible, Asks

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• It is the assumption of this book that there is a typical human nature. It is the aim of this book to seek it. Just like a surgeon, a psychiatrist can make all sorts of basic assumptions when a patient lies down upon the couch. He can assume that the patient knows what it means to love, to envy, to trust, to think, to speak, to fear, to smile, to bargain, to covet, to dream, to remember, to sing, to quarrel, to lie. The 'smile' of a baboon is a threat; the smile of a man is a sign of pleasure: it is human nature, the world over.

  Matt Ridley

  Dream, Lying, Book

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• I definitely want to thank my doctor, Dr. Sandy, um, my psychiatrist, she really helped me relax a lot, thank you so much.

  Metta World Peace

  Doctors, Nba, Relax

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• Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War.

  J. G. Ballard

  War, World, Firsts

  "The Lure of the Madding Crowd". The Independent on Sunday, 1991.

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• I am a financial planner, not a psychiatrist, but I do know that your net worth will rise to meet your self-worth only if your self-worth rises to accept what can be yours.

  Suze Orman

  Self Worth, Financial, Accepting

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• Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the music. For what has been spoiled by the father can only be made good by a father, just as what has been spoiled by the mother can only be repaired by a mother. The disastrous repetition of the family pattern could be described as the psychological original sin, or as the curse of the Atrides running through the generations.

  Carl Jung

  Mother, Running, Daughter

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1963). “Mysterium coniunctionis, an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of psychic opposites in alchemy”

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• The Christian ethic did not raise the worth of female life much above the Jewish: nor did the clinical ethic raise it much above the clerical. This is why most of those identified as witches by male inquisitors were women; and why most of those diagnosed as hysterics by male psychiatrists were also women.

  Thomas Szasz

  Christian, Males, Female

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.162, Syracuse University Press

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• Anybody who is thinking of applying for the Scotland job in the next eight or nine years should go get themselves checked out by about 15 psychiatrists.

  Martin O'Neill

  Jobs, Thinking, Eight

  "Ireland's Martin O'Neill now faces battle to stop career petering out" by Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2015.

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• Sometimes you're a psychiatrist and sometimes you're a group therapist. The dynamics in between people and the misgivings sometimes that artists have when they get into the studio because they're under a different level of scrutiny. A lot of them can be insecure about it. My job is not simply to make musical determinations but sometimes to just keep people from flipping out during the process.

  Todd Rundgren

  Determination, Jobs, Insecure

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The first reason for psychology's failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are generally the theoreticians on these matters, have essentially made up myths without any evidence to support them; the second reason for psychology's failure is that personality theory has looked for inner traits when it should have been looking for social context.

  Naomi Weisstein

  Should Have, People, Personality

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• I just invite people to share a secret with me. It's not like I'm a psychiatrist who's going to react to it or a priest who's going to give you something to do. When you let it go, there's kind of this void and I think people like that.

  Frank Warren

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

  Aldous Huxley

  Peace, Would Be, Earth

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• A man goes to a psychiatrist. "Nobody listens to me!" The doctor says, "Next!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Psychotherapy is a practice that many different professional disciplines engage. Psychiatrists are also medical doctors and increasingly offer medication and do less and less actual therapy.

  Jed Diamond

  Doctors, Practice, Discipline

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It's unlikely I'll ever submit to a psychiatrist's couch. I don't want some stranger prowling around through my psyche, monkeying with my id. I don't need an analyst to tell me that I have never had any sense of security. Who has?

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Needs, Want, Stranger

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.20, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Responsible, Notion, Policemen

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• Our job should be like any other forensic scientist's - we should be truth seekers who are not partisan, who do not have any interest in the outcome, who call it as we see it no matter the consequences. But it seems a lot easier for chemists and anthropologists and pathologists to take that neutral role than it does for psychiatrists.

  Park Dietz

  Jobs, Outcomes, Matter

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I, quite literally, woke up from a coma, from having tried to kill myself and it was very clear to me what my psychiatrist had been saying for years. The choice is not between a drug that has side effects or not, life is not ideal. Yes, your drug has side effects and yes if you don't take it you're going to die.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Years, Choices, Drug

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is an illusion and try to 'cure' it: and this assumption they make not as professional psychologists but as amateur philosophers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Trying, Philosopher

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