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I think I need a psychiatrist because I do believe I am mentally disturbed in some way. Tyson Fury
Bush also successfully rammed through the Orwellian-named New Freedom Initiative. This forces every child in America from age five to eighteen to be psychologically tested twice a year. Whether you’re home-schooled, private-schooled or public-schooled. The guidelines for mental illness were written by a consortium of drug companies. And in their own internal documentation they brag they will go from 15% of children on psychotropic drugs and Ritalin to over 50% ... This is the type of nightmare only Joseph Stalin could dream of. Alex Jones, Martial Law 9/11: The Rise of the Police State, 2005
The Dallas District Attorney’s Office sent psychiatrists into the defendant’s cell to discover whether he is without remorse and therefore is a dangerous and psychopathic personality ... Holbrook and Grigson: the killer shrinks ... Whenever they showed up, the purpose of their visit was to kill the defendant. The Thin Blue Line 1988 starring Randall Adams & David Harris & Gus Rose & Jackie Johnson et al, director Errol Morris, music Philip Glass, Randall
He testified – Grigson – that if the future seriousness of my mental states would be such that if they released me I would go crazy and butcher half of Dallas country ... He talked to me fifteen minutes; he is crazy. ibid. Randall
They sent you to a psychiatrist? But that’s crazy. The Sopranos s1e7: Down Neck starring James Gandolfini & Lorriane Bracco & Edie Falco & Michael Imperioli & Dominic Chianese & Steven van Zandt & Tony Sirico & Robert Iler et al, Granny to AJ, HBO 1999
Cunnilingus and psychiatry brought us to this. The Sopranos s1e13: I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano, Tony to Carmela
We’ve been seeing his therapist together. The Sopranos s3e7: Second Opinion, Carmela to mum and dad at table
Our story deals with psychoanalysis, the method by which modern science treats the emotional problems of the sane. Spellbound 1945 starring Indrid Bergman & Gregory Peck & Michael Chekhov & Leo G Carroll & Rhonda Fleming & John Emery & Art Baker & Bill Goodwin et al, director Alfred Hitchcock, caption
What are you saying – that I wanted to fuck my mother? Have you ever seen my mother? Are you out of your fucking mind? Well then Freud’s a sick fucker, and you are too for bringing it up. Aaargh! Analyze This 1999, starring Robert De Niro & Billy Crystal & Lisa Kudrow & Chazz Palminteri & Joe Viterelli & Kyle Sabihy & Pat Cooper & Joe Rigano & Leo Rossi et al, director Harold Ramis, Vitti to Sobel
The New Freedom Commission is a federal program to mandate the bogus screening and compulsory medication of children from infancy through eighteen years of age in this country through the use of completely inappropriate screening techniques. Any child who deviates from the prescribed feeling and thought pattern that is allowed to them will be compulsorily medicated, even over the objection of their parents, with dangerous, unproven and untested psychiatric medications to control their thoughts, their behaviours and to impede their emotional development. This is a federally mandated program. Dr Rima Laibow, cited One Nation Under Siege
The church [Scientology] wants nothing short of the global obliteration of psychiatry. John Sweeney, Panorama: Scientology & Me 2007
Back in 2007 I had faced days of pressure from the Church. Then they took me to their Industry of Death exhibition. One of the beliefs of the Church is that psychiatry is evil, damaging humanity around the world. For ninety minutes I had a tour through madness. John Sweeney, Panorama, The Secrets of Scientology BBC 2010
I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst. Vladimir Nabokov
You don’t go to an analyst to find out who you are, it’s to find out how to get to what you know you are. Dudley Moore
Freud devised a method for exploring a hidden part of the mind which we nowadays call the Unconscious, which is a part totally unknown to our Consciousness. That there exists a barrier in all our minds which prevents these hidden and unwelcome impulses to the unconscious emerging. Good night. Dr Ernest Jones, colleague of Sigmund Freud
After World War One Freud was basically a pessimist. He felt that man is an impossible creature – a very very sadistic and bad species. And he did not believe that man could be improved. Man is a ferocious animal. The most ferocious animal that exists. He can enjoy torturing and killing – he didn’t like man. Dr Ernst Federn, Viennese psychoanalyst
I started my professional activity as a neurologist trying to bring relief to my neurotic patients. I discovered some important new facts about the unconscious in psychic life – the role of instinctual urges and so on. Sigmund Freud, radio interview BBC
People did not believe in my facts and thought my theories unsavoury. Resistance was strong and unrelenting. The struggle is not yet over. ibid.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. Carl Jung
Man becomes what he is meant to be. At least he ought to get there. But most get stuck by unfavourable external conditions, by all sorts of hindrances or pathological destructions. Carl Jung
The only real danger that exists is man himself. He is the great danger ... We are the origin of all coming evil. Carl Jung
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. Carl Jung, Vom Werden der Personlichkeit, 1932
A more or less superficial layer of the unconscious is undoubtedly personal. I call it the personal unconscious. But this personal unconscious rests upon a deeper layer, which does not derive from personal experience and is not a personal acquisition but is inborn. This deeper layer I call the collective unconscious. Carl Jung
I liked him [Freud] very much, but I soon discovered that when he had thought something it was settled while I was doubting all along the line ... From the very beginning there was discrepancy. Carl Jung
The divided self. R D Laing, title of book on schizophrenia 1960
There are some words in relationship to such people like sickness and madness and psychosis and neurosis that have become in my mind so confused in their uses that I would prefer to withdraw them from the currency of my own discourse. R D Laing
The Politics of the Family. R D Laing
Insanity – a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. R D Laing
What we call ‘normal’ is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience. It is radically estranged from the structure of being. The more one sees this, the more senseless it is to continue with generalized descriptions of supposedly specifically schizoid, schizophrenic, hysterical ‘mechanisms.’ There are forms of alienation that are relatively strange to statistically ‘normal’ forms of alienation. The ‘normally’ alienated person, by reason of the fact that he acts more or less like everyone else, is taken to be sane. Other forms of alienation that are out of step with the prevailing state of alienation are those that are labelled by the ‘formal’ majority as bad or mad. R D Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to live in relative adjustment to a civilization apparently driven to its own destruction. ibid.
Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth. ibid.
We are all murderers and prostitutes – no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be. R D Laing
This [Bernays’] is a childish application of psychoanalysis which does not take at all into consideration the very real political and systematic waste of resources, of technology and the productive process, for example planned obsolescence. Herbert Marcuse
It was one of the most striking phenomena to see to what extent the ruling power structure could manipulate, manage and control not only the consciousness but also the subconscious and unconscious of the individuals. Herbert Marcuse, televised interview 1978
Any man who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined. Sam Goldwyn
He has a kindly face and lots of country-boy charm, but when Psychiatrist James Grigson, 48, shows up in a Texas courtroom, it is usually the kiss of death. The prosecution brings Grigson in for a sentencing hearing and asks him about the guilty man’s inclination to commit violent crimes in the future. In each of more than 70 such proceedings since 1967, Grigson has testified that the defendant was a ‘sociopath’ who was dangerous to society, and every time, with a single exception, the jury has unanimously voted for the ultimate penalty: in Texas, death by injection. Time online article 1st June 1981, ‘Law: They Call Him Doctor Death’