Psychiatry Quotes

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

Oscar Levant

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

William S. Burroughs

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Theodor Reik

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

Laurence J. Peter

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

William James

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Muriel Spark

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

Antonin Artaud

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

Gene Fowler

Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.

Carl Gustav Jung

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart?

William Shakespeare

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

Arnold Glasgow

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

Oscar Wilde

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Berg?re and looks at the audience.

Bishop Mervyn Stockwood

The difference between a neurotic, a psychotic, and a psychiatrist. The neurotic builds castles in the sky, the psychotic lives in them and the psychiatrist collects the rent.

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You go to psychiatrist when your slightly cracked and keep going until you're completely broke.

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