Psychiatrist Quotes - Page 13

• To help other people, you've got to be able to help yourself. You go to a psychiatrist, and they're on this Prozac, Effexor, and antidepressants, you may have picked the wrong person. If you go to somebody who's broke who's selling you financial services, that might not be a good thing. You go to somebody who's fat to help you lose weight... And a lot of people ironically do these types of things.

  Tony Robbins

  Helping Others, People, Weight

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.

  Thomas Harris

  Two, Patient

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.60, Macmillan

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• In explaining the growth of his faith, psychiatrist Gerald May writes, "I know that God is loving and that God’s loving is trustworthy. I know this directly, through the experience of my life. There have been plenty of times of doubt, especially when I used to believe that trusting God's goodness meant I would not be hurt. But having been hurt quite a bit, I know God's goodness goes deeper than all pleasure and pain it embraces them both." Ruthless Trust, pg 22

  Brennan Manning

  Hurt, Pain, Believe

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• The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache. This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Depression, Roots, World

  Interview with Eric Nordern, Playboy, September 1968.

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• LSD is no longer playing a bad role in the drug scene and psychiatrists are again trying to submit their proposals for research with this substance to the health authorities. I hope that LSD will again become available in the normal way, for the medical profession. Then it could play the role it really should, a beneficial role.

  Albert Hofmann

  Play, Drug, Trying

  "Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California". Interview with Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

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• Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.

  Marya Mannes

  Sarcastic, Business, Responsibility

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying to persuade medical and psychiatrist establishments to deal with the intersex involves critique of the binary gender system. Similarly there continues to be extreme, sometimes very extreme violence against transgender people.

  Judith Butler

  People, Trying, Violence

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• I don't think the police, even if we train them, can be, you know, as good as psychologists and psychiatrists and others knowing what is happening to somebody. So we've got to have a more coherent, comprehensive approach.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Knowing, Police

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Contemporary American psychiatrist
  It is a happy talent to know how to play.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Games, Play, Childhood

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• Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have.

  Harvey Penick

  Funny, Golf, People

  Harvey Penick, Bud Shrake, Edwin Shrake (1997). “The Wisdom of Harvey Penick”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think that there are as many black women or women of color becoming psychiatrists, so we can't find them and then we feel looked at and studied and that's part of what is damaging to us. It's hard to find therapy that is actually a tool for your own liberation. I think we can be really distrustful.

  Morgan Parker

  Thinking, Color, Black

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

  Bob Hope

  Mothers Day, Mean, Motherhood

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• My psychiatrist prescribed a game of golf as an antidote to the feelings of euphoria I experience from time to time.

  Bruce Lansky

  Golf, Games, Feelings

  Bruce Lansky (2011). “Golf, It's Just a Game: The Best Quotes & Cartoons About Golf”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I have heard about a patient - the psychiatrist was bored with him. Of course, he was getting enough money out of him, but he was getting bored by and by - three, four, five years of psychoanalysis, and the man was repeating the same again and again and again. The psychiatrist said, 'Do one thing: go to the mountains for a few days. That will be very helpful.'

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Men, Years

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• A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Philosophy, Thinking, Mentor

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• If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.

  Lisa Unger

  Ifs

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• I had learned of Gertrude Steins bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Doors, Views, Medicine

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• But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are we supposed to be psychiatrists? Isn't it enough to write and tell the truth? It's not like telling the truth is common. Writers are the earthworms of society. We aerate the soil. That's enough.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Soil, Common

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• I always wanted to be a psychiatrist.

  Ester Dean

  Wanted

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• I like understanding what's underneath, what's really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Thinking, People, Understanding

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• Isn't it boring ... how people always want to tell you their own stories instead of listening to yours? I suppose that's why psychiatrists are better than friends; the paid listener doesn't interrupt with his own experiences.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Talking, People, Listening

  Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• Within the world of TV land, into which American life has been reduced as well as reproduced, the phenomenon of the talk show has emerged as a genre located somewhere on the spectrum between coffee klatch and town meeting, or perhaps between the psychiatrist's couch and the crowd scene at a bad accident.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Coffee, Land, Towns

  Patricia J. Williams (1995). “The Rooster's Egg”, p.110, Harvard University Press

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• I do not believe that a dog can be cured by a psychiatrist, but I think some owners could be helped by one.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Dog, Believe, Thinking

  Barbara Woodhouse (1984). “No Bad Dogs: The Woodhouse Way”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• In Greece we're too poor to go to psychiatrists -- we have friends instead.

  Melina Mercouri

  Poor, Greece

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• I might not be a psychiatrist, but I am convinced that sex is not as important as we tend to make it. First there is that little feeling, that little red flame, called love. Blow on the flame and make it get bigger like a fire, don't blow it out like a candle.

  Xaviera Hollander

  Sex, Blow, Fire

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