Hans Eysenck Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

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

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

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

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.

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.

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.

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

They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

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.

You know, ever since man had any notion that some of his other people, his colleagues, could be different, could be strange, could be severely depressed or what we now recognize as schizophrenia, he was certain that this kind of illness had to come from evil spirits getting into the body.