Carl Jung Quotes

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

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.

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

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.

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.

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

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.

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.

The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.

It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane.

Isn't it fun to be nuts? Isn't it fun to be crazy?

Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn't be here!

Nothing sounds as crazy as telling people you're not crazy.

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.

It's like any other part of your body - your mental health gets sick, and it needs treatment.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

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

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

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

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

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

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.