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

Dr. Laurence J. Peter quotes (American “hierarchiologist”, Educator and Writer, 1919-1990)

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The science of Psychiatry is now where the science of Medicine was before germs were discovered”

Malcolm Rogers quotes

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.”

Henry Kissinger quotes (American Political scientist. b.1923)

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.”

Alfred Hitchcock quotes (English Film Director, 1899-1980)

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read i”

Raymond Chandler quotes (American Writer, author of detective fiction,1888-1959)

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Psychiatry’s chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul.”

Alexander Chase quotes

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.”

Harold Rosenberg quotes (particularly known for his insightful contributions to the understanding of 20th-century visual art.)

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Although we may not know it, we have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.”
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Thomas S. Szasz quotes (Hungarian psychiatrist and Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, b.1920)

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“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.”

Carl Gustav Jung quotes (Swiss psychiatrist, Psychologist and Founder of the Analytic Psychology, 1875-1961)