#psychiatry

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#inspirational #inspirational-quotes #love #lovers #psychiatry

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on. ↗

— Norah Vincent

#mental-health #psychiatry #psychology #inspirational

Wilhelm Reich identified "armor" as the sum total of typical character attitudes, which an individual develops as a blocking against his emotional excitations, resulting in rigidity of the body, lack of emotional contact, "deadness". Functionally identical to muscular armor (chronic muscular spasms) ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#contact #deadness #emotional #emotions #fear

Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and a name. Every random thought must have a root in something else. ↗

— Derek Landy

#feelings #futility #language #psychiatry #psychoanalysis

On having a backup plan: "Always a good plan anytime you want to follow your dream - I love writing, acting, and psychiatry - there are crazy people everywhere which means I can take my career anywhere my dream needs to go. ↗

— Samantha Steele

#author #books #crazy #dream #follow

I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#i #i believe #like #most #neurotic

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

#big #big time #boulevard #called #death

If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating mental illness as a genetically influenced disorder of brain chemistry--has been a smashing success. Freud's ideas, which dominated the history of psychiatry for the past half century, are now vanishing like the last snows of winter. ↗

— Edward Shorter

#history #psychiatry #age

My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#delusions #drugs #funny-quotes #mother #psychiatrist

Matthews asked: “How intimate was your relationship with Dr. Miller?” “Intimate?” Phil still couldn’t grasp what they were asking. “My colleague is asking if you’d ever had sex with Dr. Miller before that evening.” Jones added curtly. “I’ve never…We’ve never…We’re friends. We’d never had sex before that evening, and we didn’t have sex that evening either.” “How do you explain your semen in her sheets then, Mr. Marshall? ↗

— Olga Núñez Miret

#fbi #police-procedural #psychiatry #rape #relationship