Jane Velez-Mitchell Quotes

I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why he's doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He's just had a bad childhood and that's why he's eating people.' Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

After a century of studying schizophrenia, the cause of the disorder remains unknown.

I deal with the human psychology and evil. They are my twin issues.

Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

I have, since the age of about 2, been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses. And I have, since the age of 10, when I was first taken to a mental hospital for evaluation and then referred to a psychiatrist for treatment, tried in various ways to overcome my anxiety.

I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.

In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2.

I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.

I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that.

An essential question regarding treatment is whether psychodynamic therapy is effective for specific disorders.

Mr. [Muhammad Ali] Jinnah is a psychopathic case.

I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named for him.

New York Governor William Sulzer is absolutely crazy, and if they don't put him out they will have to establish a regency.

When I was in desperate trouble for maybe eight or nine years, I went to a neuropsychiatrist.

Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough that it's reasonably mild in my case.

Therapy is not a 'white thing.' It's a clinical thing.

Sometimes actresses are just insane.

Multiple personality disorder and possession are not necessarily mutually incompatible disorders. There's some evidence that you can have both.

It's not a giant thrill to hear someone give you the label 'manic-depressive,' but to me I was so relieved. What I was suffering from had a name and could be treated.

If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

I've struggled a lot with therapy because it's got a stigma to it, and also, it's really gotta work for you, I've found.

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.

I sometimes wonder if I'm a psychopath.