Charles Krauthammer 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.

I'm not a psychiatrist.

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

I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

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.

I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years.

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

I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.

I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I'm not in the position.

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.

Depression is an illness and not a necessary part of healthy living.

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.

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

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.

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

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

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

Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.

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

I had to work with a psychiatrist.

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.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.