Psychiatry Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Psychiatry.
Top Quotes
“Neuroscience”
“Psychoanalysis”
“Political abuse of psychiatry”
“You know, if you get treated like a patient, you're apt to act like one.”
“Christ, all you psychiatrists think about is sex — sex, sex, sex, sex, sex ...”
“Wikipedia: Psychiatry”
“The psychiatrist unfailingly recognizes the madman by his excited behavior on being incarcerated.”
“I can't stand feeble, robotic psychiatrists. They give you false drugs and turn you into a zombie.”
“Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.”
“Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the unclean person.”
“Nurse Ratched: If Mr. McMurphy doesn't want to take his medication orally, I'm sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way.”
“Shrinks are the blind leading the blind; even the best of them are dealing from a short deck. Anyone who consults a shrink should have his head examined.”
“Every time [psychiatry] comes across a natural act that is contrary to the prevailing conventions, it brands this act as a symptom of mental derangement or abnormality.”
“Not only psychiatry itself but also the values reflected in its statistical definition of “normalcy” serve to condition men to habitual, unthinking, conformist behavior.”
“Psychiatry is becoming too popular. Everybody talks of complexes and neuroses and psychoses and compulsions and whatnot. One man's guilt complex is another man's good night’s sleep.”
“Mental illness is a myth. Psychiatrists are not concerned with mental illnesses and their treatments. In actual practice they deal with personal, social and ethical problems in living.”
“‘He's promised to see a psychiatrist — but I'm not very optimistic about that. I only ever knew one psychiatrist. Funny chap. If ever a man was in need of psychiatric treatment it was him.’”
“Randle McMurphy: They, uh, was givin' me 10,000 watts a day, you know, and I'm hot to trot. The next woman who takes me out is gonna light up like a pinball machine and pay off in silver dollars.”
“I owe my complete restoration to a discovery I made while being treated at that particular very expensive sanatorium. I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists: cunningly leading them on.”