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Discover the most impactful and inspirational quotes from the Psychiatry Quotes category. Here, you’ll find a diverse collection of motivation, wisdom, love, laughter, or a deeper understanding of life, our curated selection of quotes has something for everyone. Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Psychiatry Quotes will inspire and resonate with you.

Sebastian Faulks

To have been able to write the books I wanted to write, on demanding subjects like war and the history of psychiatry, and for them to have sold in the numbers they have – and then go around saying: ‘Actually, I’d also like to have won the Costa Book of the Year?’ That would be ridiculous.

– Sebastian Faulks

Ross MacDonald

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I’ve been trying to turn it back into myth again.

– Ross MacDonald

Robert Klein

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.

– Robert Klein

Robert Jay Lifton

The other thing that happened was my last military assignment – this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.

– Robert Jay Lifton

Martin Seligman

The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.

– Martin Seligman

Laurence J Peter

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

– Laurence J Peter

Kay Redfield Jamison

I say I’m an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.

– Kay Redfield Jamison

Kate Millett

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn’t like you.

– Kate Millett

Kate Millett

Everybody believes in psychiatry; it’s supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I’d concede, but there is no physical proof.

– Kate Millett

Kate Millett

Psychiatry causes so much death.

– Kate Millett

John Sweeney

They had taken me to an exhibit called ‘Psychiatry: Industry of Death’ on Hollywood Boulevard, where a Scientologist told me psychiatrists set up the Holocaust. I feared I was being brain-washed. And then I lost it – big time.

– John Sweeney

Johan Huizinga

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

– Johan Huizinga

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