Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm not a psychiatrist.

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rushing to the therapist's couch.

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.

The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.

It was either therapy or die.

A judge is much more likely to see a mentally ill person than is a psychiatrist. Each year over 1 million mentally ill people are arrested

The idea of going to the psychologist, for anyone who has any problem, is associated with something negative. I think everyone sees it that way when it's really a very important thing.

You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be for having cancer or cardiovascular disease or a car accident.

I love therapy. I talk about it a lot because I feel like, especially among black people, it's stigmatized.

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

People tend to look at mental health differently than physical health. If someone tears their ACL, we don't expect them to run 30 yards for a touchdown. They need to be treated and have the time to rest and heal, It's the same thing for mental health.

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.

People get really irritated by mental illness.

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

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.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.