Psychiatry quotes

“The truth is what everybody accepts. Right, Owen? I mean, psychiatry: it's the latest religion. We decide what's right and wrong. We decide who's crazy or not. I'm in trouble here. I'm losing my faith.”
Madeleine Stowe - Kathryn Railly

“I wanted to be an artist. I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Eventually I became an actor so I guess it's a little bit of both.”
Terry Serpico

“Steve's about as psychic as a ham sandwich.”
Nancy Travis - Prof. Joyce Reardon

“- Frank Capella: Do you ever watch wrestling, Ray?
- Ray: Sure. I mean you know, now and then.
- Frank Capella: Because this is just like wrestling.
- Ray: How?
- Frank Capella: Well it's reality, mixed with illusion, mixed with bullshit, mixed with... big scary guys from parts unknown, in dire need of psychiatric care.”

Maury Chaykin - Frank Capella
Paul Hopkins - Ray

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

“She did not marry your penis. Ok, she didn't only marry your penis.”

Jami Gertz - Dr. Melissa Reeves

“Dr.Linda Freeman-Have you ever been in therapy before?
Charlie Harper-Does massage therapy count?
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Charlie Sheen - Charlie Harper
Jane Lynch - Dr. Linda Freeman

“Hamlet was made for Freud. Not you.”
Constance Towers - Cathy

“We're trying to save women from getting pulled into vans and cut to pieces, not crucify some schoolmarm who hasn't done anything.”
Holt McCallany - Bill Tench

“How do we get ahead of crazy if we don't know how crazy thinks?”
Jonathan Groff - Holden Ford

“Butchering people is hard work. Physically and mentally. I don't think people realize. You need to vent.”
Cameron Britton - Edmund Kemper

“I mean, if they admitted that they rape and murder for pleasure, it would destroy them. There's a tension. They need to be seen to have power over someone, and yet circumstance demands that they erase the only witness, which means they have to do the whole thing over again. It must be Hell.”
Anna Torv - Dr. Wendy Carr

“Personality and character far outweigh the presence of psychotic or defective diagnoses. In other words, by extrapolation, are criminals born or are they formed?”
Thomas Philip O'Neill - Leo Buchanan

“It's a riddle, but it can be solved. It's complex, but it's human.”
Jonathan Groff - Holden Ford

“Psychopaths are extremely skilled at imitating human emotions. It's how they manipulate other people, or how they gain power over their environment.”
Anna Torv - Dr. Wendy Carr

“As an alienist, I treat mental and emotional disorders in my patients, and I try to alleviate their condition. I do not presume to cure them.”
Daniel Brühl - Laszlo Kreizler

“Even these days, it isn't as easy to go crazy as you might think. But you don't have to be losing your mind to need psychiatric help.”
Kevin McCarthy - Dr. Miles J. Bennell

“- Lt. Barney Greenwald: Doctor, you have testified that the following symptoms exist in Lieutenant Commander Queeg's behavior: rigidity of personality, feelings of persecution, unreasonable suspicion, a mania for perfection, and a neurotic certainty that he is always in the right. Doctor, isn't there one psychiatric term for this illness?
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José Ferrer - Lt. Barney Greenwald
Whit Bissell - Lt. Comdr. Dickson M.D.

“- Veta Louise Simmons: Doctor, everything I say to you is confidential, isn't it?
- Dr. Sanderson: I am not a gossip, Mrs. Simmons. I am a psychiatrist.”
Josephine Hull - Veta Louise Dowd Simmons
Charles Drake - Dr. Raymond Sanderson

“- Johnny Farrell: From now on, you go anywhere you please, with anyone you please. But, I'm gonna take you there and I'm gonna pick you up and bring you home. Get that? Exactly the way I'd - take and pick up his laundry.
- Gilda: Shame on you, Johnny. Any psychiatrist would tell you that your thought associations are very revealing.”
Glenn Ford - Johnny Farrell
Rita Hayworth - Gilda

“- Constance Petersen: All analysts have to be psychoanalyzed by other analysts before they start practicing.
- John Ballantyne: Ahhh, that's to make sure that they're not too crazy.”
Ingrid Bergman - Dr. Constance Petersen
Gregory Peck - John Ballantyne

“- Dr. Alex Brulov: And how do you know what his real character is?
- Constance Petersen: I know. I know.
- Dr. Alex Brulov: She knows. This is the way science goes backward. Who told you what he is? Freud?, or a crystal ball?”
Michael Chekhov - Dr. Alexander Brulov
Ingrid Bergman - Dr. Constance Petersen

“Women make the best psychoanalysts until they fall in love. After that they make the best patients.”
Michael Chekhov - Dr. Alexander Brulov

“- Nurse Marino: She was in a group therapy session.
- Teddy Daniels: Huh. Anything unusual occur?
- Nurse Marino: This is a mental institution, Marshal, for the criminally insane. Usual isn’t a big part of our day.”

Nellie Sciutto - Nurse Marino
Leonardo DiCaprio - Teddy Daniels

“- Lois Lane: You're psychotic.
- Lex Luthor: That is a three syllable word for any thought too big for little minds.”
Amy Adams - Lois Lane
Jesse Eisenberg - Lex Luthor