psychiatry

Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergere and looks at the audience.

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

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveller with his patient.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year then I'm going to Lourdes.

The four-letter word for psychotherapy is 'talk'.

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.

The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.

Those modern analysts they charge so much! In my day for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables.

If you talk to God you are praying if God talks to you you have schizophrenia.

I believe that this neglected wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

A refusal on the part of psychiatrists and therapists to validate the horrors of their patients' tortured past implies a refusal to take seriously the unconscious psychological mechanisms that individuals need to use to protect themselves from the unspeakable. Such a denial is, however, no longer ethical, for it is in the human capacity to dissociate that lies part of the secret of both childhood abuse and the horrors of the Nazi genocide, both forms of human violence so often carried out by 'respectable' men and women.