Quotes about Psychiatry

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What I do know is that when a person is first asked to explain what is wrong, they may find it almost impossible to arti — Linda Gask, The Other Side of Silence: A Psychiatrist's Memoir of Depression
Perhaps my depression coincided with the start of every academic year and the subsequent increase in my workload. Or may — Linda Gask, The Other Side of Silence: A Psychiatrist's Memoir of Depression
Yet, I believe that my experience of depression has helped me to be a more humane and understanding therapist. Psychiatr — Linda Gask, The Other Side of Silence: A Psychiatrist's Memoir of Depression
I can't see the logic in medicating a grieving person like there was something wrong with her, and yet it happens all th — Richard Wagner, The Amateur's Guide To Death and Dying; Enhancing the End of Life
Psychotropic drugs have also been organized according to structure (e.g., tricyclic), mechanism (e.g., monoamine, oxidas — Benjamin James Sadock, Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences/Clinical Psychiatry
The issues of antidepressant-associated suicide has become front-page news, the result of an analysis suggesting a link — Benjamin James Sadock, Kaplan & Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences/Clinical Psychiatry
Nostalgia was diagnosed [as a medical illness] at a time when art and science had not yet entirely severed their umbilic — Svetlana Boym
As it stands, the diagnostic criteria for depression are so loose that two people with absolutely no symptoms in common — Neel Burton, The Meaning of Madness
Consciousness returns to its own dark thoughts and bad memories as reliably as kids to their own scabs, and maybe it's n — Mark Crutchfield, The Last Best Gift: Eye Witnesses to the Celebrity Sabbath Massacre
…it seemed to Kirsch that the most reliable guide to the mental landscape of a patient was the patient himself. He was b — Philip Sington, The Einstein Girl
The irony of taking Anti Depressants: you take them to feel good but they also make you feel bad or worse because you wo — Mico Monsalve
The irony of seeking a shrink: they are successful in shrinking your brain but unfortunately they also make your wallet — Mico Monsalve
Although it is important to be able to recognise and disclose symptom of physical illnesses or injury, you need to be mo — Alison Miller, Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse
Repression. Her therapist, Dr. Solomon, loved the word. He'd say it slowly, letting it roll off his tongue. Sometimes he — Jo Ann Yhard, The Fossil Hunter of Sydney Mines
Standing on the edge with my patients — abiding with them — means that I must harbor a true awareness that I, too, could — Christine Montross, Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis
They safely cured the world of sadness, wiser the Pfizer for it? — Brian Spellman
Sometimes I get so sad that it jest sounds good. — Abbi Glines, Existence
On having a backup plan: "Always a good plan anytime you want to follow your dream - I love writing, acting, and psychia — Samantha Steele
A more fundamental problem with labelling human distress and deviance as mental disorder is that it reduces a complex, i — Neel Burton, The Meaning of Madness
Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand. — Megan Chance, The Spiritualist