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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #psychiatry
Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience ↗
#philosophy-of-life #pseudoscience #psychiatry #psychology #religion
Madmen, criminals, and rapists! Isn’t it fantastic? All the romantic proposals I’ve ever got from anybody. Somebody up there has an extremely dark sense of humour. ↗
#police-procedural #psychiatry #rape #serial-killer #romantic
Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but it cannot--despite the pretensions and protestations of psichiatrists--be both. ↗
Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable. ↗
You must have been working very hard here, with so few distractions.” Mary’s eyes darkened and she looked away. “Not quite as much as I hoped for. At times the loneliness and the unanswered questions can get overwhelming, like very loud voices echoing inside my head, just asking ‘why’ ‘who’ and making me think about my wasted life. ↗
When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves ↗
In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable. ↗
#government #health-care #health-care-system #humanism #medical
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. ↗
#air force #any #assignment #avoid #being