Top 260 Psychiatrist Quotes & Sayings

My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him.

Songwriting is the cheapest psychiatrist I know.

I did something that I told people around me never to do, which was, pay a psychiatrist. Why pay a psychiatrist when you can just come to me? I can help you with something going on in your life; even if I know nothing about you, I can possibly help you. That's just me being cocky like I am.

If I didn't play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.

I always wanted to be a psychiatrist.

You have to be a psychiatrist too, especially in fashion. A psychologist and a psychiatrist together.

You're not a nutcase if you want to go see a psychiatrist.

I have heard about a patient - the psychiatrist was bored with him. Of course, he was getting enough money out of him, but he was getting bored by and by - three, four, five years of psychoanalysis, and the man was repeating the same again and again and again. The psychiatrist said, 'Do one thing: go to the mountains for a few days. That will be very helpful.'

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient.

I used to see a psychiatrist in New York but I got bored.

My DVD cellophane was put on by a psychiatrist. It was shrink-wrapped.

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

I would say I see myself as a psychiatrist in remission.

Mystification is the psychiatrist's defense against the danger of being found out.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.

My psychiatrist once said to me, 'Maybe life isn't for everyone'.

I started taking my mental health seriously, really working with a therapist and a psychiatrist.

When the psychiatrist approves of a person's actions, he judges that person to have acted with "free choice"; when he disapproves,he judges him to have acted without "free choice." It is small wonder that people find "free choice" a confusing idea: "free choice" appears to refer to what the person being judged (often called the "patient") does, whereas it is actually what the person making the judgment (often a psychiatrist or other mental health worker) thinks.

No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.

Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions.

A comedian is simply a different kind of therapist. A comedian is a psychologist and a psychiatrist rolled into one. Except I can't prescribe medicine. (You still need a doctorate, which is bullshit.) Okay, so I'm not like a psychiatrist. Fine. But I'm still like a psychologist (except I can't diagnose or treat mental illness).

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.

I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.

'The Mark' I played a psychiatrist. And in the '50's everybody went to a psychiatrist because if you didn't, you'd have nothing to talk about at cocktail parties.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.

I wanted to be a psychiatrist.

I do not believe that a dog can be cured by a psychiatrist, but I think some owners could be helped by one.

I had to work with a psychiatrist.

I always wanted to be an archaeologist or a psychiatrist.

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

I am the political psychiatrist to the stars.

If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.

I see a psychiatrist once a week and I'm closer than ever to my children.

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist's couch.

Going to a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things a person can do.

That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.

Self-help is something that I've always been into. I thought I was going to be a psychiatrist.

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.

I must visit a psychiatrist to check if there's any sanity left in me.

If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office.

When I was in my mid-20s, running a successful company and clinically depressed, I was afraid to talk to anyone other than my psychiatrist about it. I was ashamed that I was even seeing a psychiatrist.

Peter Breggin, an American psychiatrist, had been criticising SSRIs since the early 1990s. He wrote 'Talking Back to Prozac' (1995) to repudiate psychiatrist Peter Kramer's 'Listening to Prozac' (1993) - a bestseller which claimed that Prozac made patients 'better than well.'

I would have loved to have been a psychiatrist or therapist.

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.

We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist.

I'm not a psychiatrist.

If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.

A psychiatrist is the god of our age. But they cost money.

If I had a whole other life, I'd be a psychiatrist.

I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.

Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Anyone living in Los Angeles who says they don't need a psychiatrist, needs a psychiatrist.

The need of an insecure psychiatrist to draw security from a virtuous adjustment to the conventionalities of his time and from a quest for approval from "the good and the great" may turn out to be another agent interfering with his ability to listen in a therapeutically valid fashion. This type of dependence gives rise to the danger that the psychiatrist may consider the changeable man-made standards of the society in which he lives to be eternal values to which he and his patients must conform.

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic.

I think people who go to a psychiatrist ought to have their heads examined.