Quotes: Psychiatry

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.

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

Psychiatry causes so much death.

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.

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

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.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.