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  • Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on the self preventing any other from really counting? Perhaps. Sometimes. Sometimes, even when we are two we are really only one; we can feel nothing but our own bones, our own difficult breaths.

    Depression   Self   Two  
  • Countries with the best-resourced medical services have the best outcomes for physical illness (it is better to have a heart attack in Washington or London than in rural Africa) whereas precisely the opposite is the case for mental illness (developing nations with limited psychiatric resources have better outcomes and lower suicide rates).

    Country   Suicide   Heart  
    Source: www.psychologytoday.com
  • Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed.

  • When anxiety disrupts functioning, it's psychiatric illness.

  • I too searched far and wide for the cure to addiction, but my medical and psychiatric background did not lead me to the cure because the source of addiction does not lie here,.

    Lying   Addiction   Doe  
  • Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is true. There are no drugs that improve mental function, self-understanding, or human relations. Any drug that affects mental processes does so by impairing them.

    Peter Breggin, David Cohen (2007). “Your Drug May Be Your Problem, Revised Edition: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications”, p.94, Da Capo Press
  • Treatment Plans and Interventions for Depression and Anxiety Disorders provides clinicians with essential guidelines to treat patients in the era of managed care. Seven psychiatric disorders are described and conceptualized in cognitive-behavioral terms. The authors then provided an unusually clear, reader-friendly description of how to assess and treat each disorder with illustrative case examples, and patient forms and handouts. It should prove very useful for clinicians or clinicians-in-training who want to learn how to conduct short-term treatment through an empirically validated approach.

  • And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.

    Nurse   Abuse   Audience  
  • Yes, I'm very normal, everything is okay, I won't become a psychiatric case.

    Normal   Cases   Okay  
    Letter to Leon Goldensohn. Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 17, 1946.
  • The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly technical terms used to identify psychiatric illnesses and interventions are simply dyphemisms and euphemisms.

    "The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1990.
  • What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession.

  • The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how he himself can best phrase what he wishes to communicate to the patient; and, at the same time, observing the general pattern of the events being communicated. In addition to that, to make notes which will be of more than evocative value, or come anywhere near being a verbatim record of what is said, in my opinion is beyond the capacity of most human beings.

    Mean   Science   Wish  
    Harry Stack Sullivan (1953). “The collected works”
  • The dumping of the mentally ill, full of these new psychiatric drugs, into the streets is a scandal. It's been carried furthest in New York, where whole sections of the decayed Upper West Side are being filled with pensioners and psychotic patients on stelazine, lithium carbonate, and everything else under the sun. They can't diagnose the patient, so they give him the whole psychiatric pharmacopoeia at once, and he walks around in a psychotic trance beautifully painted all over with petrochemicals.

    New York   Giving   Drug  
    "An Autobiographical Novel". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Chapter: "Pysch Ward", www.bopsecrets.org. 1991.
  • Following the school shootings, Hillary and Tipper Gore, as well as their husbands, got together for the first White House conference on mental health. Because of her interest in mental health and her own problem with anti-depressants, Tipper had been made the expert, the psychiatric consultant to the president, duly designated.

    Husband   School   White  
    Source: whale.to
  • Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent...and remarkably popular products and practices.

  • From Hillary Clinton, in her own double-talking words, and from others, we understand that our children have been stolen from us by the state and by the psychiatric establishment.

    Source: whale.to
  • In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives and frequently does.

    Spiritual   Reality   Doe  
    "The Hazards of Psychiatric Diagnosis" by Dr. Peter Breggin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.
  • The statistic that 67 percent of women's admissions to the psychiatric facilities are during the week before menstruation is critically important to every woman, and to every woman who feels she suffers from depression.

    Source: m.motherjones.com
  • It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.

    Practice   People   May  
    Rollo May Ph.D. (1953). “Man's Search for Himself”
  • I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I'd been a psychiatric social worker for 17 years, but within 24 hours after I started the case against studying reading Bible in school by my son, I was fired from my job as a supervisor in the city public welfare department. And I was unable to find another one. So my income was completely cut off.

    Jobs   Reading   School  
  • The Maze is a painting of the inside of my skull, which I painted when I was in England as a patient in Maudsley and Netherne psychiatric hospitals. It is a story of my life, well in the sense that people tell stories by the fireplace to entertain their guests, trying to make them accept you. In this case I wanted to be accepted, as an interesting specimen.

  • If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses.

    Exercise   Risk   Illness  
  • To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you have nobody to help you. Really it isn't easy. I was talking with my nephew this morning and he gave me one of the best quotes I've heard in years 'Personal style is curiosity about oneself.'

    Morning   Talking   Years  
  • Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.

  • Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.

  • Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.

    Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1960). “Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy”, p.67, University of Chicago Press
  • Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day.

    Names   Pieces   Paper  
    Michael Thomas Ford (2011). “Suicide Notes”, p.8, Harper Collins
  • Foods of the Gods”) - “After water, cocoa is the single healthiest substance you can put in your mouth. It can easily replace a number of psychiatric drugs for mood, plus it produces the same chemistry in the brain that occurs when we fall in love.

  • The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

    Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.312, University of Illinois Press
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