Psychiatrist Quotes - Page 14

• Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.

  Erica Jong

  Men, He Man, Psychiatry

  Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.171, Open Road Media

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• Anyone living in Los Angeles who says they don't need a psychiatrist, needs a psychiatrist.

  Kathy Lette

  Needs, Los Angeles

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• Are you seeing a psychiatrist?' as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years it was a compliment. It meant, 'One can plainly see you are sensitive, intense, and interesting, and therefore neurotic.' Only the dullest of clods trudged around without a neurosis.

  Barbara Holland

  Years, Interesting, Noses

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions.

  John Gierach

  Writing, Fishing, Guides

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• Linde's Danger to Self is a warm, candid and appealing account of being an emergency room psychiatrist. Linde captures the non-conformist, hard-boiled style of the psychiatrists who work in this setting.

  Tanya Luhrmann

  Self, Style, Rooms

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• I am convinced that nine out of every ten persons seeing a psychiatrist do not need one. They need someone who will love them with God's love...and they will get well.

  Paul Tournier

  Get Well, Needs, Nine

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• Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance at this strange habit of mathematicians, which has changed little from Pythagoras to our day.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Science, Littles, Philosopher

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• I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.

  Antonin Artaud

  Suicide, Morning, Science

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• The self must be a tense bow. It must struggle with opposites rather than harmonize them, rather than turn the tension over to the great instruments of last manhood the skilled bow unbenders and Jesuits of our days, the psychiatrists, who, in the same spirit and as part of the same conspiracy of modernity as the peace virtuosos, reduce conflict.

  Allan Bloom

  Struggle, Self, Opposites

  Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster

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• .. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

  Les Paul

  Music, Guitar, Wonderful

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• Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the unclean person.

  Thomas Szasz

  Age, Pork, Heroin

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic "causes" of these "conditions"?

  Thomas Szasz

  Names, Molecules, Looks

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?

  Fay Weldon

  Sorry, Men, Wonder

  "The Heart of the Country". Book by Fay Weldon, 1987.

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• From almost the first day they got into office, they (President Bush and Vice President Cheney) were trying to figure out how to get rid of Saddam Hussein. I'm not a psychiatrist - I don't know all of the reasons behind their concern, some might say their obsession.

  Hillary Clinton

  Office, Trying, President

  "Counterprogramming: Clinton in New Hampshire" by Patrick Healy, thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com. February 10, 2007.

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• I really enjoyed doing that [Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2004) - "Graham Barnes"]. I got to work with Margaret Colin, who was a blast to work with, and a wonderful actress, and Taylor Roberts. She was fantastic. And getting to work with Vincent D'Onofrio, who's amazing. But I loved the characters of the parents, these sick psychiatrists.

  Brent Spiner

  Character, Order, Law

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm so glad I didn't become a doctor, because I do more than any doctor can do. I am an administrator, a CEO, doctor, psychiatrist, an activist, a campaign funder. I think I did well.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Thinking, Doctors, Campaigns

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• Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.

  Jason Epstein

  Distance, Editors, Patient

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