Johan Huizinga

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

Dutch Historian

Robert Jay Lifton

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.

American Psychologist

Rob Lowe

I've had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months - it's sort of like getting your oil checked - I ask, 'I'm not an actual narcissist, am I?' The learned men of psychiatry assure me that I meet none of the medical criteria.

American Actor

Martin Seligman

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

Ross MacDonald

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

American Novelist

Harry Stack Sullivan

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

Alfred Hitchcock

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

English Director

Laurence J. Peter

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

Canadian Writer

Kay Redfield Jamison

I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.

Kate Millett

American Activist

Psychiatry is a specialized area of medicine, not psychology.

Medical Field

Psychiatry may involve various treatments including therapy, medication, or hospitalization.

Treatment Approach

Psychiatry is not just about treatment, it also aims to prevent mental health issues.

Preventative Focus

Psychiatry is a profession where you work with patients who have mental illnesses.

Healthcare Career

Many psychiatrists conduct research to understand and treat mental illness better.

Research Importance

Psychiatry involves clinical settings, where patients receive direct treatment.

Clinical Context

 She's some other woman pretending to be my mother." Now, why does this happen? Why would somebody -- and this person is perfectly lucid and intelligent in all other respects, but when he sees his mother, his delusion kicks in and says, it's not mother. Now, the most common interpretation of this, which you find in all the psychiatry textbooks,

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 that needed to be shown the greatest compassion and care. It was armed with this knowledge that ultimately I would gather together my shattered self, each fragment represented by a different voice, gradually withdraw from all my medication, and return to psychiatry, only this time from the other side.

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 knowledge in the everyday world and an especially important challenge that I've had to face is the great shortage of mental health professionals such as psychiatrists and psychologists particularly in the developing world now I trained in medicine in India and after that I chose psychiatry as my

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 We predict ourselves into existence. Now, I leave you with three implications of all this. First, just as we can misperceive the world, we can misperceive ourselves when the mechanisms of prediction go wrong. Understanding this opens many new opportunities in psychiatry and neurology,

Your brain hallucinates...

 psychedelic research flourished all over the world and showed great promise for the fields of psychiatry, psychology and psychotherapy, neuroscience and the study of mystical experiences. But psychedelics leaked out of the research settings and began to be used by the counterculture,

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 once a drug is generic and off patent and no longer exclusive to encourage pharma companies to develop them, because they don't make money. And that's not true for just ketamine. That is true for all drugs. Regardless, the idea itself is completely novel in psychiatry,

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 psychiatry and neurology and we've merged with other disciplines. Statistical analysis, artificial intelligence, machine learning, even, you know, material sciences, information technology with advances in technology contributing to ever better,

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 so that animals and humans could just move these devices, no matter how far they are from their own bodies, just by imagining what they want to do, our colleagues told us that we actually needed professional help, of the psychiatry variety.

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 is sometimes used as an emergency treatment. Some bipolar patients reject treatment because they're afraid it will dim their emotions and destroy their creativity. But modern psychiatry is actively trying to avoid that.

What is bipolar...

 nature my background is in medicine and psychiatry central to my work is the task of helping my patients to come to know themselves a little better to recognize the own contributions towards