Quotes by Psychiatrists

50,000-63,000 individuals in the United States and 19,000-25,000 in the UK die prematurely from cancer annually due to insufficient vitamin D.
John Cannell
I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.
C.G. Jung
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
C.G. Jung
What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?
Keith Ablow
What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture of the mass media? Anything that's described in artistic terms and shown in the movies stops being frightening and mysterious. For real horror you need the spoken word, you need an old grandpa sitting on a bench, scaring the grandkids in the evening: 'And then the Master of the house came to him and said: "I won't let you go, I'll tie you up and bind you tight and you'll rot under the fallen branches!"' That's the way to make people wary of anomalous phenomena! Kids sense that, you know–it's no wonder they love telling stories about the Black Han and the Coffin on Wheels. But modern literature, and especially the movies, it all just dilutes that instinctive horror. How can you feel afraid of Dracula, if he's been killed a hundred times? How can you be afraid of aliens, if our guys always squelch them? Yes, Hollywood is the great luller of human vigilance. A toast–to the death of Hollywood, for depriving us of a healthy fear of the unknown!
Sergei Lukyanenko
Monster or not, he was risking his neck to save her.
Ilsa J Bick
Oyin Da’s mind is as elegant as a French horn, thoughts moving in whorls and evoking fresh mint leaves.
Tade Thompson
The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing let alone the success or failure that book may have after it is written . . . the book is merely a symbol of the writing. In writing the book I am living. I am growing. I am tapping myself. I am changing. The process is the product.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.
Smiley Blanton
The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.
Carl Jung
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
Our unconsciousness is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.
Milton R. Sapirstein
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Carl Jung
I feel that one must deliberate then act must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.
Viktor Frankl
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
M. Scott Peck
The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity self-sufficiency and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.
Dr. William Menninger
The proverb warns that "You should not bite that hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
Thomas Szasz
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
There is a potential heroine in every woman.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
We should know what our convictions are and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy conscious or unconscious depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is so will be his ultimate truth.
Carl Jung
Maturity is coming to terms with that other part of yourself.
Dr. Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse
Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor and vice versa.
Dr. Karl Menninger
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.
Carl Jung
There is more than a mere suspicion that the scientist who comes to ask metaphysical questions and turns away from metaphysical answers may be afraid of those answers.
Gregory Zilboorg
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
If your life is ever going to get better you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.
David Viscott
All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.
Smiley Blanton
The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
Thomas Szasz
Our concern must be to live while we're alive ... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
If you talk to God you are praying if God talks to you you have schizophrenia.
Thomas Szasz
The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl Jung
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.
Thomas Szasz
Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
R.D. Laing
The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveller with his patient.
R.D. Laing
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.
William Menninger
The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl Jung
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be what he will become in the next moment.
Viktor Frankl
Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Perfection never exists in reality but only in our dreams.
Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs
The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.
M. Scott Peck
Choose to experience peace rather than conflict.
Gerald Jampolsky
The sweetest flower that blows I give you as we part. For you it is a rose For me it is my heart.
Frederick Peterson
Humor acts to relieve fear.
Dr. William F. Fry
Outstanding beauty like outstanding gifts of any kind tends to get in the way of normal emotional development and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.
Milton R. Sapirstein
Happiness is ... usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.
Thomas Szasz
If you observe a really happy man you will find ... that he is happy in tiie course of living life twenty-four crowded hours each day.
W. Beran Wolfe
To be happy drop the words "if only" and substitute instead the words "next time."
Smiley Blanton
Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished to endure unpleasantness discomfort and frustration.
Edward A. Strecker
The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
Thomas Szasz
Our concern must be to live while we're alive ... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
If you talk to God you are praying if God talks to you you have schizophrenia.
Thomas Szasz
The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl Jung
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.
Thomas Szasz