Quotes by Psychiatrists - Page 2

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
Everyday ask yourself the question "Do I want to experience Peace of Mind or do I want to experience Conflict ?"
Gerald Jampolsky
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
Henry Maudsley
Seldom or perhaps never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung
The irony of love is that it guarantees some degree of anger fear and criticism.
Harold H. Bloomfield
When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security then the state of love exists.
Henry Stack Sullivan
Where love rules there is no will to power and where power predominates love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl G. Jung
Ultimately love is everything.
M. Scott Peck
No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence.
Smiley Blanton
Love is letting go of fear.
Gerald Jampolsky
Choose to be a love-finder rather than a faultfinder.
Gerald Jampolsky
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
It is this intangible thing love in many forms which enters into every therapeutic relationship. . . . And it is an element which binds and heals which comforts and restores which works what we have to call - for now - miracles.
Karl Menninger
To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl
Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.
Gerald Jampolsky
If you talk to God you are praying if God talks to you you have schizophrenia.
Thomas Szasz
Hope is an adventure a going forward a confident search for a rewarding life.
Dr. Karl Menninger
Hope is the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
Dr. Karl Menninger
The slow compromise or even surrender of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.
Leston L. Havens
That man is an aggressive creature will hardly be disputed. With the exception of certain rodents no other vertebrate habitually destroys members of its own species.
Anthony Storr
So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.
Carl Jung
If you observe a really happy man you will find ... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of each day.
W. Beran Wolfe
It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
Viktor Frankl
Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.
Smiley Blanton
There is a great difference between satisfaction and satiation.
Mary Jane Sherfey
I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
Gerald Jampolsky
Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.
Gerald Jampolsky
Without forgiveness life is governed ... by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
Robert Assaglioli
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky
The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.
Carl Jung
Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being a potential prophet a new spiritual prince a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.
R.D. Laing
When family relations are no longer harmonious we have filial children and devoted parents.
R.D. Laing
Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.
Frank Pittman
The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.
Carl Jung
There are no mistakes no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes while his failures on the other hand are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth but force him to change his views and methods.
Carl Jung
I believe we are solely responsible for our choices and we have to accept the consequences of every deed word and thought throughout our lifetime.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Courage in the final analysis is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
Dr. Kurt Goldstein
To be happy drop the words "if only" and substitute instead the words "next time."
Smiley Blanton
The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.
Leon Eisenberg
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung
The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be what he will become in the next moment.
Viktor Frankl