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  • The problem with Christians is they aren't as good as Jesus. But thank God most Muslims are better than Muhammad.

    God   Christian   Jesus  
  • In my practice as a psychiatrist, I have found that helping people to develop personal goals has proved to be the most effective way to help them cope with problems.

    Practice   People   Goal  
  • Sometimes, soulmates may meet, stay together until a task or life lesson is completed, and then move on. This is not a tragedy, only a matter of learning.

    FaceBook post by Dr. Brian Weiss from Apr 12, 2014
  • I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

    Life   Death   Simple  
    James Thurber (1983). “Credos and Curios”, HarperCollins
  • All those years on the psychiatrist's couch and suddenly the couch is moving. Good God, she is on that couch when the big one hits. Maidy didn't tell you, but you know what her doctor said? She sprang from the couch and said, "My God, was that an earthquake?" The doctor said this: "Did it feel like an earthquake to you?

    Moving   Doctors   Years  
  • There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

    Happiness   Dog   Nature  
  • 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.

    Men   Doctors   Humanity  
    "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.
  • If you caught your kid raising cats in tiny boxes, forcing them to live in their own feces without clean air or sunlight, pulling their teeth and claws out with pliers to keep them from hurting each other…you’d rush him to a psychiatrist. But you support that very behavior every time you buy meat, eggs, dairy or fur.

    Hurt   Cat   Kids  
  • 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.

    Interview with Eric Nordern, Playboy, September 1968.
  • Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've led their lives. It also reflects the inner work they've done, their efforts to heal anger, hatred, or self-loathing, which poison us like toxic fumes.

    Love   Positive   Anger  
    Judith Orloff (2004). “Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love”, p.25, Harmony
  • Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.

  • There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting into. With novels, I'm kind of fly by night. It isn't something I can be really consistent with.

    Reading   Night   Kind  
    The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.
  • The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

    Years   Two   Psychology  
    Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.107, BookBaby
  • That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.

    Eras   Weak   Grew Up  
  • As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to survive? Or are we reporters of the truth, assembling the multiple shards of reality into intricate portraits which seek out the connections between misery and blessing, violence and wisdom? Do we protect or investigate the heart?

    Heart   Reality   Artist  
  • I think that's the function of a lot of psychiatrists and therapists, is keeping people afloat just long enough for them to get older.

    Thinking   Long   People  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Sick   Office   Brain  
    Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”
  • My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

    Father   Musician   Sides  
  • 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.

  • My DVD cellophane was put on by a psychiatrist. It was shrink-wrapped.

  • I definitely want to thank my doctor, Dr. Sandy, um, my psychiatrist, she really helped me relax a lot, thank you so much.

    Doctors   Nba   Relax  
  • Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.

  • You essentially have a human-relations database on millions of Americans. The administration said, "Well we're not listening to calls, we don't collect content." As [Vice President] Joe Biden said when he was a United States senator, you don't need to listen to those calls. If you have who somebody called, when and where, and you learned, for example, somebody called a psychiatrist three times in the last few days and twice after midnight, you know a lot about that person that they may not want people to know about them, especially the government.

    "Stopping the 'Ever-Expanding Surveillance State'". Interview with Aj Vicens, www.motherjones.com. July 31, 2013.
  • Linde's Danger to Self is a warm, candid and appealing account of being an emergency room psychiatrist. Linde captures the non-conformist, hard-boiled style of the psychiatrists who work in this setting.

    Self   Style   Rooms  
  • I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

  • Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

  • I haven't taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven't been in jail, and I don't go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That's something of an accomplishment these days.

    Running   Taken   Sleep  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The Drab Age is over. Color is coming into its own again. Until very recently people were literally scared out of their wits by color. Perhaps this was a hangover from our Puritan ancestors. But whatever the reason, brown, grays and neutrals were the only shades considered 'safe.' Now we know that lovely, clear colors have a vital effect on our mental happiness. Modern doctors and psychiatrists are convinced of this!

  • Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.

    Powerful   Years   Denial  
    Source: www.esquire.com
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