Alain de Botton Quotes

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.

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 know people who are medicated and it's their favorite subject.

There's nothing wrong or weak about seeking a therapist. I have a therapist.

My mother, actually, is a therapist.

It is as imperative to take care of our minds as is our bodies and hence seeking help for mental illness is of paramount importance.

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.

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.

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.

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

But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.

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

There's a stigma on the word 'therapy.' People relate it to big problems. That's something we have to change. Going to therapy can be very healthy. It can change the way you see things and treat others.

You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

I'm not a psychiatrist.

The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

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

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

We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our - our son or daughter for a mental health checkup?

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

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.

If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.

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.

There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.