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A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32936/view">A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/37/Joey_Adams">Adams, Joey</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32937/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/280/Antonin_Artaud">Artaud, Antonin</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32938/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/280/Antonin_Artaud">Artaud, Antonin</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32939/view">Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2588/Gene_Fowler">Fowler, Gene</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32940/view">Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2604/Janet_Frame">Frame, Janet</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32941/view">It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2642/Sigmund_Freud">Freud, Sigmund</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married -- the other half because they're not. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32942/view">Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married -- the other half because they're not..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2872/Arnold_H._Glasgow">Glasgow, Arnold H.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32943/view">Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2916/Samuel_Goldwyn">Goldwyn, Samuel</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32944/view">To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3769/William_James">James, William</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32945/view">Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4359/Oscar_Levant">Levant, Oscar</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32946/view">If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4906/Marshall_Mcluhan">Mcluhan, Marshall</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjusted to the crazy scheme of things and spare yourself the humiliation of becoming a Christian Scientist. You can have your ego trimmed or removed, as you wish, just like a wart or bunion. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32947/view">If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjusted to the crazy scheme of things and spare yourself the humiliation of becoming a Christian Scientist. You can have your ego trimmed or removed, as you wish, just like a wart or bunion..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5001/Henry_Miller">Miller, Henry</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents shortcomings. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32948/view">Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents shortcomings..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5664/Laurence_J._Peter">Peter, Laurence J.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32949/view">Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6055/Theodor_Reik">Reik, Theodor</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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? <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32950/view">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?.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6633/William_Shakespeare">Shakespeare, William</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32951/view">One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6869/Muriel_Spark">Spark, Muriel</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergère and looks at the audience. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32952/view">A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergère and looks at the audience..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6984/Bishop_Mervyn_Stockwood">Stockwood, Bishop Mervyn</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32953/view">The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7002/Anthony_Storr">Storr, Anthony</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32954/view">Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7103/Thomas_Szasz">Szasz, Thomas</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32955/view">Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7103/Thomas_Szasz">Szasz, Thomas</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the intellectual expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-medical jargon that parodies the concepts of science. The social style conforms to the political expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-liberal social movement that parodies the ideals of freedom and rationality. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32956/view">Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the intellectual expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-medical jargon that parodies the concepts of science. The social style conforms to the political expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-liberal social movement that parodies the ideals of freedom and rationality..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7103/Thomas_Szasz">Szasz, Thomas</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32957/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7377/Source_Unknown">Unknown, Source</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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You go to psychiatrist when your slightly cracked and keep going until you're completely broke. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32958/view">You go to psychiatrist when your slightly cracked and keep going until you're completely broke..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7377/Source_Unknown">Unknown, Source</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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