Psychiatrist Quotes - Page 8

• Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it

  Thomas Szasz

  Commitment, Slavery, Problem

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• Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Relationship, Letting Go, Loss

  "Good Grief". www.newyorker.com. February 1, 2010.

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• If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility

  Brock Chisholm

  Family, Responsibility, Race

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• Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary (or sitting) worker? Joy? Contentment? No! Never! Boredom, resentment, a feeling of not being appreciated, a feeling of futility, hurry, anxiety, worry-those are the emotional factors that exhaust the sitting worker, make him susceptible to colds, reduce his output, and send him home with a nervous headache. Yes, we get tired because our emotions produce nervous tensions in the body.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Attitude, Home

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• Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.

  R. D. Laing

  Names, Patient, Schizophrenia

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• When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world.

  Stevie Wonder

  Religious, Religion, World

  Song: Have A Talk With God

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• Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.

  Victoria Abril

  One Day, Next, Solve

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• One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things that are scientifically false. If someone tells me that the earth is less than 10,000 years old, in my opinion he should see a psychiatrist.

  Francis Crick

  Country, Believe, Years

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• If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime, and driving it underground, we ought to recognize it for what it is: it's a mental illness, it's a psychiatric condition which ought to be treated sympathetically by psychiatrists and social workers.

  Tommy Douglas

  Country, Attitude, Driving

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during the debate on the proposed Omnibus bill to decriminalize homosexuality, 1968.

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• If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.

  Tamara Mellon

  Fashion, Has Beens, Ifs

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• Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.

  Dale Archer

  Real, Liars, Personality

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• The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a "wholesome personality" are inevitably their own.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Education, Creativity, Science

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• When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  Directors, Singers, Riders

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• I guess I came to terms with my demons. Or else I'd be in big trouble, wouldn't I? Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature. I'll tell you, being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst. But you take the cards you're dealt, and I got better. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well.

  Margot Kidder

  Get Well, Crazy, Eye

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well

  Margot Kidder

  Get Well, Cards You're Dealt, Healthy

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• When I was in school, I dreamed about becoming a psychiatrist or a ballerina. Like most girls I would dream about being a movie star too. But those dreams are the impossible kind, the kind you don't really set your heart on.

  Sharon Tate

  Girl, Dream, Stars

  "Screen Stories" magazine, 1967.

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• I haven't taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven't been in jail, and I don't go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That's something of an accomplishment these days.

  Ava Gardner

  Running, Taken, Sleep

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist, moving an audience... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.

  Gordon Willis

  Moving, Dark, Thinking

  "Remembering Gordon Willis, ASC" by Jon Fauer, www.fdtimes.com. May 20, 2014.

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• Songwriting is the cheapest psychiatrist I know.

  Billy Joe Shaver

  Songwriting, Knows

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• If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist

  Ray Davies

  Writing, Eight, Two

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• I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

  James Thurber

  Life, Death, Simple

  James Thurber (1983). “Credos and Curios”, HarperCollins

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• When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and the dignity of love.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Attention, Dignity

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.98, Penguin

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• The night was full of horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts.

  Joseph Heller

  Night, Nuts, World

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• All that self-control stuff, I tried all that stuff from analysts. I went everywhere to these guys, every kind of anger-management, psychologist, psychiatrist. 'Get rid of my temper, get rid of my temper.' And there was only one guy who just said, 'I don't think this is related to, uh, issues. I think there has got to be something wrong.'

  Harvey Weinstein

  Thinking, Self, Issues

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• This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, Doc, my brother’s crazy. He thinks he’s a chicken. The doctor says, Well, why don’t you turn him in? And the guy says, I would but I need the eggs. Well I guess that’s pretty much how I feel about relationships. You know they’re totally irrational and crazy and absurd but I guess we keep going through it because, uh, most of us need the eggs.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Brother, Crazy

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