Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.
My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didnt think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?
Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.
Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.
A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.
Anybody who is thinking of applying for the Scotland job in the next eight or nine years should go get themselves checked out by about 15 psychiatrists.
In Greece we're too poor to go to psychiatrists -- we have friends instead.
I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle.
Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.
Just look at the list of who the lowest-paid people are. Pediatricians are at the bottom. You would also look at internists. You would look at psychiatrists. You would look at family physicians, HIV specialists. People who take care of chronic illnesses by seeing people carefully over time, those are the people who get the least money. The people who have the most are people like orthopedic surgeons, interventional cardiologists. And my point isn't that there is something wrong with heroism.
The psychiatrists say that everybody should have a hobby. The hobby I recommend is advertising
Linde's Danger to Self is a warm, candid and appealing account of being an emergency room psychiatrist. Linde captures the non-conformist, hard-boiled style of the psychiatrists who work in this setting.
Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check 3 friends. If they are okay, you're it.
I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria or your own unfeminine inadequacy. Women have learned to submit to pain by hearing authority figures - doctors, priests, psychiatrists - tell us that what we feel is not pain.
I have no hang-ups. I don't have to go to psychiatrists.
Psychotherapy is a practice that many different professional disciplines engage. Psychiatrists are also medical doctors and increasingly offer medication and do less and less actual therapy.
No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.
I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists
