Psychiatry quotes

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◆ A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

- Joey Adams100

◆ It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius.

- Antonin Artaud99

◆ Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

- Alfred Hitchcock99

◆ The science of Psychiatry is now where the science of Medicine was before germs were discovered

- Malcolm Rogers99

◆ I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read i

- Raymond Chandler99

◆ Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

- Ken Livingstone99

◆ There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

- Harry Stack Sullivan99

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

- Laurence J Peter99

◆ I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

- Rodney Dangerfield99

◆ Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

- Carl Jung99

◆ A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

- William S Burroughs99

◆ Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.

- Gene Fowler99

◆ Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.

- Arnold H Glasgow99

◆ Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

- Saul Bellow99

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

- Samuel Goldwyn99