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Quotes about psychiatry
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A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing (Millett Kate)
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. (Millett Kate)
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. (Millett Kate)
Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application. (Millett Kate)
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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. (Millett Kate)
It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand. (Millett Kate)
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined. (Millett Kate)
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. (Millett Kate)
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. (Millett Kate)
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents shortcomings. (Millett Kate)
Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis. (Millett Kate)
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? (Millett Kate)
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. (Millett Kate)
A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergre and looks at the audience. (Millett Kate)
Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine. (Millett Kate)
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. (Millett Kate)
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. (Millett Kate)
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. (Millett Kate)
I was fighting myself. I felt dull and spiritless, and I told my mother I thought I needed to see a psychiatrist. (Millett Kate)
[Is he unconsciously drawn to survival stories?] You should ask my psychiatrist, if I had one, … But the answer is maybe. Any kind of survival is a subject I enjoy dealing with. (Millett Kate)
Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof. (Millett Kate)
Psychiatry causes so much death. (Millett Kate)
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself. (Millett Kate)
This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you. (Millett Kate)
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