Psychiatry quotes
66 psychiatry quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Manhattan
“Don't psychoanalyze me. I pay a doctor for that.”
- From the movie: Small Sacrifices
“As a psychiatrist, it is my professional opinion that Diane Downs' personality disorders qualify her as a dangerous offender. She is a sociopath: an antisocial personality without any concern for the rights of others. She has a brilliant mind with no conscience to guide it. A narcissist who sees herself as the center of everything, who will get...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: The Thin Man
“I've been studying psychopathic criminology and I have a theory. Perhaps this was the work of a sadist or a paranoiac. If I saw it I might be able to tell.”
- From the movie: Who'll Stop the Rain
“- Ray Hicks: Your husband once told somebody I was a psychopath.
- Marge Converse: That's the kind of thing he'd say.
- Ray Hicks: Do you think he could be right?
- Marge Converse: It's a very imprecise term.” - From the movie: The Madness of King George
“- Dr. Willis: If the King refuses food, He will be restrained. If He claims to have no appetite, He will be restrained. If He swears and indulges in meaningless discourse... He will be restrained. If He throws off his bed-clothes, tears away His bandages, scratches at His sores, and if He does not strive every day and always towards His own...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Birdy
“I don't trust the guy. Everything's too interesting to him.”
- From the movie: Texasville
“- Jacy: It's ironic you broke all your ribs right before the Adam and Eve skit. I wonder what a psychiatrist would make of that.
- Duane: I din't break all my ribs, I just broke three.
- Jacy: That doesn't affect the irony, honey-pie.” - From the movie: Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
“For a psychiatrist, whether you lie or tell the truth is unimportant because lies are as interesting, as eloquent, and as revelatory as the so-called truth.”
- From the movie: Manhattan
- From the movie: Alone in the Dark
- From the movie: Manhattan
“- Isaac: You call that guy that you talk to a doctor? I mean, you don't get suspicious when your analyst calls you at home at three in the morning and weeps into the telephone?
- Mary: All right, so he's unorthodox. He's a highly qualified doctor.
- Isaac: He's done a great job on you, y'know. Your self esteem is like a notch below Kafka's.” - From the movie: Deathtrap
“- Sidney Bruhl: Clifford, my dear, in your run-ins with the law, in your infancy so to speak, did any of the doctors, policemen, shrinks, did any of them ever use... the... word...?
- Clifford Anderson: What word Sidney?
- Sidney Bruhl: Sociopath?
- Clifford Anderson: Does that word... frighten you, Sidney?
- Sidney Bruhl: No, no. It does...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Getting Away with Murder
“I want to see you six days a week... I can't. How about every other Thursday?”
- From the movie: Mulholland Falls
“I don't want to butt into your business, but this psychiatrist, the guy you're going to, I think he's in worse shape than you are.”
- From the movie: Airplane II: The Sequel
- From the movie: Now, Voyager
- Mrs. Henry Vale: The very word "psychiatry", doesn't it fill you with shame, my daughter, a member of our family?
- Dr. Jaquith: There's nothing shameful or frightening about it. It's simple, what I do. People come to a fork in the road. They don't know which way to go. I put up a signpost: "Not that way. This way".
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