Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

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.

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

I don't believe in psychology.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

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.

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

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

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.

Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.

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.

If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.

Derek, my husband, is a psychotherapist.

I was going to university to study psychology and my big ambition in life was to open treatment rooms for psychotherapy.

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

I'm not afraid to admit I have therapy. It's nothing to be ashamed of, and it really does help.

I'm a pretty psycho-obsessed shrink.

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.

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 would not be here now if I did not have anti-depressants.

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

I'm not a psychiatrist.