Quotes on Psychiatry

The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.

LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.

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.

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

All neurotics seek the religious

Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning.

Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone the two currents of my interest could flow together and in a united stream dig their own bed. Here was the empirical field common to biological and spiritual facts, which I had everywhere sought and nowhere found. Here at last was the place where the collision of nature and spirit became a reality.

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.