Psychiatry Quotes - Page 8

• Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.

  Thomas Szasz

  Self, Gains, Succeed

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• There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.

  Allen Frances

  Tests, Rays, Doe

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