Psychiatrist Quotes

• You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked. When you tell a psychiatrist his mental institution came from a lazar house, he becomes infuriated.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • History
  • Science
  • Pseudoscience

• All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life being his own psychiatrist.

  

  Charles Beaumont
  • Writers
  • Fears
  • Psychiatrist

• I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

  

  Michael Haneke
  • Create
  • Privilege
  • Fears

• When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

  

  Rebecca De Mornay
  • Professional
  • Wanted
  • Director

• In explaining the growth of his faith, psychiatrist Gerald May writes, "I know that God is loving and that God’s loving is trustworthy. I know this directly, through the experience of my life. There have been plenty of times of doubt, especially when I used to believe that trusting God's goodness meant I would not be hurt. But having been hurt quite a bit, I know God's goodness goes deeper than all pleasure and pain it embraces them both."

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Faith
  • Pain
  • Goodness

• Are you seeing a psychiatrist?' as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years it was a compliment. It meant, 'One can plainly see you are sensitive, intense, and interesting, and therefore neurotic.' Only the dullest of clods trudged around without a neurosis.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Interesting
  • Compliment
  • Neurotic

• Victims' assistance wanted to give me $10,000 to go talk to a shrink or psychiatrist about it, ... But I got to thinking about it and realized I got my therapy right here.

  

  Elvin Bishop
  • Therapy
  • Victims
  • Assistance

• An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.

  

  David Greenberg
  • Remember
  • Child
  • Someone

• God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • Sublime
  • Psychologist
  • Psychotherapists

• If I didn't play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Play
  • Tennis
  • Psychiatrist

• I'm not the guy in the dress with the blood and the unrequited gay whatever - which, according to my psychiatrist, my gayness is a form of narcissism but you'll have to ask him about that.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Dress
  • Narcissism
  • Gayness

• My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took vacation jobs there as a nursing assistant. So I did get to see mental illness, but I don't remember conversations about mental conditions. My father was a cheerful man with a robust attitude to such things.

  

  Morag Joss
  • Attitude
  • Director
  • Conditions

• I do not believe that a dog can be cured by a psychiatrist, but I think some owners could be helped by one.

  

  Barbara Woodhouse
  • Don't Believe
  • Helped
  • Psychiatrist

• I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Discovered
  • Psychiatrist
  • Medical School

• The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day.Good.They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Fall
  • Sometimes
  • Wine

• Songwriting is the cheapest psychiatrist I know.

  

  Billy Joe Shaver
  • Songwriting
  • Psychiatrist

• People come to me with their heads held high and announce that they do not eat sugar anymore, as though they have tackled one of life's deadly sins. My response is to ask them how long they have had this problem and if they have considered seeing a psychiatrist.

  

  Emily Luchetti
  • Problem
  • Sins
  • Announce

• The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache. This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • World
  • Kind
  • Recognition

• I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Patient
  • Psychiatrist

• If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Brain
  • Sick
  • Office

• I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Believe
  • Needs
  • Psychiatrist

• If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Stupid
  • Company
  • Idiot

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