Irvin D. Yalom Quotes

So we had psychiatrists and counselors and therapists around the set regularly, especially for those scenes in which Jason would be dealing with a patient to make sure we were doing it all appropriately.

There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, you know, Superman's X-ray vision into the soul. One of the reasons I left psychiatry is that I didn't believe that.

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.

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.

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.

I believe that the healthy people go to therapy. It is the real lunatics who avoid it.

Insurance companies, government agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry all push for mental health care that is brief, intermittent, and focused on quick fixes, despite the fact that many people struggle with emotional difficulties that can only be addressed over time using special psychodynamic skills.

For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.

I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

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

Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure.

Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

In New York City, everybody goes into therapy.

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

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 later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

I'm not a psychiatrist.

I've been to therapists my whole life.

I am surrounded by counselors. My sister is a counselor. My daughter is training to be a counselor. A lot of my friends are counselors.

The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink.

Look, isn't there any way you can just stamp me as not crazy and let me get outta here.