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“You tell them one real thing and then the doctor thinks he knows you. He starts getting arrogant and overfamiliar, making insulting suggestions left and right. You have to protest constantly just t...”
“Leave him with his God. Im sure Hes as hard and unforgiving as Cain is. I dont want to know about Cains God. If he is anything to be guided by, Id rather be an atheist, thank you.”
“What do you think of Cains affirmations?He never told a lie. If he says that God talks to him, he is convinced that God is talking to him.Do you believe he is a saint?God only knows, and never bett...”
“) Do you hear his voice as you hear me? Is it a voice outside your head?Its difficult to explain. It isnt a voice like anything Ive ever heard before. It isnt a man or a woman, its God.How do you k...”
“A neurotic is the man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.”
“A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergere and looks at the audience.”
“I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year then I'm going to Lourdes.”
“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.”
“Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.”
“Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.”
“The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveller with his patient.”
“Those modern analysts they charge so much! In my day for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you tre...”
“Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.”
“Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.”
“Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.”
“The point of therapy is get unhooked not to thrash around on how you got hooked.”
“The four-letter word for psychotherapy is 'talk'.”
“I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.”
“Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.”
“The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.”
