Psychiatry Quotes

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Rollo May

Depression is rage spread thin.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

I believe that this neglected wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

A neurotic is the man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

Anonymous

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergere and looks at the audience.

Mervyn Stockwood

I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year then I'm going to Lourdes.

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.

Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveller with his patient.

Those modern analysts they charge so much! In my day for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

Laurence J. Peter

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

G.K. Chesterton

Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

Anonymous

The point of therapy is get unhooked not to thrash around on how you got hooked.

Maryanne Walters

The four-letter word for psychotherapy is 'talk'.

Anonymous

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.

William Menninger

The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else's.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Rollo May

Depression is rage spread thin.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

I believe that this neglected wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

A neurotic is the man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

Anonymous

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergere and looks at the audience.

Mervyn Stockwood

I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year then I'm going to Lourdes.

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.

Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveller with his patient.

Those modern analysts they charge so much! In my day for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

Laurence J. Peter

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

G.K. Chesterton

Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

Anonymous

The point of therapy is get unhooked not to thrash around on how you got hooked.

Maryanne Walters

The four-letter word for psychotherapy is 'talk'.

Anonymous

I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.

William Menninger

The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else's.

A refusal on the part of psychiatrists and therapists to validate the horrors of their patients' tortured past implies a refusal to take seriously the unconscious psychological mechanisms that individuals need to use to protect themselves from the unspeakable. Such a denial is, however, no longer ethical, for it is in the human capacity to dissociate that lies part of the secret of both childhood abuse and the horrors of the Nazi genocide, both forms of human violence so often carried out by 'respectable' men and women.

Felicity De Zulueta

Madmen, criminals, and rapists! Isn’t it fantastic? All the romantic proposals I’ve ever got from anybody. Somebody up there has an extremely dark sense of humour.

Olga Núñez Miret

Matthews asked:“How intimate was your relationship with Dr. Miller?”“Intimate?” Phil still couldn’t grasp what they were asking.“My colleague is asking if you’d ever had sex with Dr. Miller before that evening.” Jones added curtly. “I’ve never…We’ve never…We’re friends. We’d never had sex before that evening, and we didn’t have sex that evening either.”“How do you explain your semen in her sheets then, Mr. Marshall?

Olga Núñez Miret

For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.

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

Maybe you’re so good at listening that you have no idea when to speak.” ~Braeden

Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning.

Implicit [in the psychiatric literature] is a set of normative assumptions regarding the father's prerogatives and the mother's obligations within the family, The father, like the children, is presumed to be entitled to the mother's love, nurturance, and care. In fact, his dependent needs actually supersede those of the children, for if a mother falls to provide the accustomed intentions, it is taken for granted that some other female must be found to take her place. The oldest daughter is a frequent choice... The father's wish, indeed his right, to continue to receive female nurturance, whatever the circumstances, is accepted without question.

Judith Lewis Herman

Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?

Charles Dickens

Despite the growing clinical and research interest in dissociative symptoms and disorders, it is also true that the substantial prevalence rates for dissociative disorders are still disproportional to the number of studies addressing these conditions. For example, schizophrenia has a reported rate of 0.55% to 1% of the normal population (Goldner, Hus, Waraich, & Somers, more or less similar to the prevalence of DID. Yet a PubMed search generated 25,421 papers on research related to schizophrenia, whereas only 73 publications were found for DID-related research.

The lifetime prevalence of dissociative disorders among women in a general urban Turkish community was 18.3%, with 1.1% having DID (ar, Akyüz, & Doan, 2007). In a study of an Ethiopian rural community, the prevalence of dissociative rural community, the prevalence of dissociative disorders was 6.3%, and these disorders were as prevalent as mood disorders (6.2%), somatoform disorders (5.9%), and anxiety disorders (5.7%) (Awas, Kebede, & Alem, 1999). A similar prevalence of ICD-10 dissociative disorders (7.3%) was reported for a sample of psychiatric patients from Saudi Arabia (AbuMadini & Rahim, 2002).

The mental health system is filled with survivors of prolonged, repeated childhood trauma. This is true even though most people who have been abused in childhood never come to psychiatric attention. To the extent that these people recover, they do so on their own.[21] While only a small minority of survivors, usually those with the most severe abuse histories, eventually become psychiatric patients, many or even most psychiatric patients are survivors of childhood abuse.[22] The data on this point are beyond contention. On careful questioning, 50-60 percent of psychiatric inpatients and 40-60 percent of outpatients report childhood histories of physical or sexual abuse or both.[23] In one study of psychiatric emergency room patients, 70 percent had abuse histories.[24] Thus abuse in childhood appears to be one of the main factors that lead a person to seek psychiatric treatment as an adult.[25]

Judith Lewis Herman

DSM-5 is not 'the bible of psychiatry' but a practical manual for everyday work. Psychiatric diagnosis is primarily a way of communicating. That function is essential but pragmatic—categories of illness can be useful without necessarily being 'true.' The DSM system is a rough-and-ready classification that brings some degree of order to chaos. It describes categories of disorder that are poorly understood and that will be replaced with time. Moreover, current diagnoses are syndromes that mask the presence of true diseases. They are symptomatic variants of broader processes or arbitrary cut-off points on a continuum.

The categories used in psychiatric diagnosis are based on observation of signs and symptoms, rather than on pathological processes. One can make use of a few signs, such as facial expressions associated with depression or the flight of ideas associated with mania. But what clinicians mainly use for diagnosis are symptoms, the subject experiences reported by patients. Psychiatrists have little knowledge of the processes that lie behind these phenomena. Thus psychiatric diagnoses, with very few exceptions, are syndromes, not diseases.

Leave him with his God. I’m sure He’s as hard and unforgiving as Cain is. I don’t want to know about Cain’s God. If he is anything to be guided by, I’d rather be an atheist, thank you.

Olga Núñez Miret

What do you think of Cain’s affirmations?”“He never told a lie. If he says that God talks to him, he is convinced that God is talking to him.”“Do you believe he is a saint?”“God only knows, and never better said. He might be, but again, I have my own taste on the matter. I’m not keen on perfection, especially when it’s dressed up like hardness. I prefer the cracked plate, the slightly blunt spear…”“The imperfect human being.”“Yes. The gloriously imperfect human being.

Olga Núñez Miret

) “Do you hear his voice as you hear me? Is it a voice outside your head?”“It’s difficult to explain. It isn’t a voice like anything I’ve ever heard before. It isn’t a man or a woman, it’s God.”“How do you know?”“Because the voice says so. And I believe it.”“Does it talk to you or does it talk about you or others?”“It talks to me.”“Does it call your name?”“Yes…It says something like: “Cain, listen. There’s something I want you to tell the others. Tell them they must love themselves. Tell them they are beautiful.””“Who are the others?”“Black people.”“You mean God is talking to the black people through you.”“I mean God is black.

Olga Núñez Miret

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