David D. Burns

Depression has been called the world's number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.

Writer

James McGreevey

I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.

American Politician

Eric Kandel

The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.

American Scientist

Jean Piaget

I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right but especially their wrong answers.

Swiss Psychologist

Julianne Moore

My mom worked as a psychiatric social worker. She was interested in people, and I guess I am, too. So we would talk about the people that we knew, and why they behaved the way they did.

American Actress

Patch Adams

I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.

American Author

Carl Hart

Sleep is probably the most important biological function. If you don't get enough sleep, you can get psychiatric illnesses and all types of different illnesses.

American Educator

Michael Hastings

The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

Jo Brand

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.

British Comedian

David Starkey

I could easily have spent one half of my life in a psychiatric hospital, and the other half in the Priory.

English Historian

Used mostly by medical professionals, it may not be understood in casual conversation.

Specialized Term

Discussing psychiatric issues requires sensitivity, as it involves personal mental health.

Sensitive Subject

'Psychiatric' refers to a medical context and shouldn't be confused with 'psychological', which is broader.

Not Interchangeable

 us about the brain right what's happening in the brain when we do this but in my opinion just as importantly we can go and use these artificially activated positive memories you can think of them as sort of weapons now against certain psychiatric disorders to the extent that we can model those and animals so imagine that we can actually

Implanting Memories PIPE...

 First, what is an eating disorder? Eating disorders are a range of psychiatric conditions characterized by these main patterns of restricting food intake, bingeing, or rapidly consuming large amounts of food, and purging or eliminating calories through vomiting, laxatives, excessive exercise, and other harmful means.

Why are eating disorders...

 And, in fact, it didn't make any difference, because I didn't have any patients anymore. So, with the advice of my physician, I had myself admitted to the acute care psychiatric unit of our university hospital. And my colleagues, who had known me since medical school, in that place, said, "Don't worry, Shep.

Sherwin Nuland: How...

 They are maladapted for everyday life, unless they get help. We know that the people who are vulnerable to long-term PTSD are people who were abused as children, who suffered trauma as children, people who have low education levels, people who have psychiatric disorders in their family.

Our lonely society makes...

 to gain new insight into this enigmatic process. Using his inkblot paintings, Rorschach began quizzing hundreds of healthy subjects and psychiatric patients with the same what might this be? However, it wasn’t what the test subjects saw that was most important to Rorschach,

How does the Rorschach...

 They’re no longer used to diagnose psychiatric conditions. But a similarly problematic practice using subtest scores is still sometimes used to diagnose learning disabilities, against the advice of many experts. Psychologists around the world still use IQ tests

The dark history of IQ...

 A questionnaire. Now, part of the reason for this is that we have an oversimplified and increasingly outmoded view of the biological basis of psychiatric disorders. We tend to view them -- and the popular press aids and abets this view --

David Anderson: Your...

 I don't know what you do for a living but I have the best work in the world I teach teenagers now if you have raised a teenager and think that I might need to undergo some psychiatric testing let me remind you that I can't raise their

Let’s put compassion...

 So I'm a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I've spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I might have ended up spending most of my life on the back ward of a hospital, but that isn't how my life turned out.

A tale of mental illness...

 I saw every kind of infectious disease doctors, dermatologists, endocrinologists, cardiologists. I even saw a psychiatrist. My psychiatrist said, "It's clear you're really sick, but not with anything psychiatric.