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6ff3924
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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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lovers
romance
inspiration
inspirational-quotes
love
inspirational
psychoanalysis
psychiatry
psychology
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Sigmund Freud |
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99201d5
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Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart. Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.
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depression
sorrow
heartbreak
psychotherapy
psychiatry
mental-health
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William Shakespeare |
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a4fc211
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I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.
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mood-swings
psychiatry
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Kay Redfield Jamison |
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b26c282
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning.
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self-understanding
psychiatry
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Irvin D. Yalom |
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e755310
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...someday..., we'll medicate human experience right out of the human experience.
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shutter-island
human-experience
medication
prescription-drugs
psychiatry
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Dennis Lehane |
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9aaa70e
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A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money.
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spirituality
psychiatry
psychology
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Sylvia Plath |
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f04cac7
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Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines.
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journalism
psychiatry
psychology
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Jon Ronson |
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0c5a807
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You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.
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psychiatry
psychology
mental-health
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Norah Vincent |
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3b2b32c
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"You think she's got a personality disorder?" "No, she's just a nasty bitch. An unpleasant personality isn't a medical condition. Just a symptom of not being slapped around the head enough."
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halo
personality-disorders
karen-traviss
psychiatry
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Karen Traviss |
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6fa9af7
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Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment.
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identity
mental-disorder
mental-illness
memory
psychiatry
psychology
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American Psychiatric Association |
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4454026
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The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them.
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existentialism
psychiatry
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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235a3fd
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Your imaginary friend isn't the problem, Amanda. The problem is that you don't seem to have any real friends.
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death
imagination
fantasy
friendship
love
imaginary-friend
real
psychiatry
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Rebecca McNutt |
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4fe2230
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I cannot accept the proposition that the four-hundred-year travail of the American Negro should result merely in his attainment of the present level of American civilisation. I am far from convinced that being released from the African witch doctor was worthwhile if I am now - in order to support the moral contradictions and the spiritual aridity of my life - expected to become dependent on the American psychiatrist. It is a bargain I refuse.
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equality
race
psychiatry
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James Baldwin |
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7b4c1ce
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After college, I went through my own shit and decided that all physical suffering in the world couldn't compare to mental anguish. And when I got myself, I decided to help other people.
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mental-illness
psychiatry
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Ned Vizzini |
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8b7ac27
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"Je decouvris qu'en bluffant les psychiatres on pouvait tirer des tresors inepuisables de divertissement gratifiants: vous les menez habilement en bateau, leur cachez soigneusement que vous connaissez toutes les ficelles du metier; vous inventez a leur intention des reves elabores, de purs classiques du genre qui provoquent chez eux, ces extorqueurs de reves, de tels cauchemars qu'ils se reveillent en hurlant; vous les affriolez avec des "scenes primitives" apocryphes; le tout sans jamais leur permettre d'entrevoir si peu que ce soit le veritable etat de votre sexualite. En soudoyant une infirmiere, j'eus acces a quelques dossiers et decouvris, avec jubilation, des fiches me qualifiant d' "homosexuel en puissance" et d' "impuissant invetere". Ce sport etait si merveilleux, et ses resultats - dans mon cas - si mirifiques, que je restai un bon mois supplementaire apres ma guerison complete (dormant admirablement et mangeant comme une ecoliere). Puis j'ajoutai encore une semaine rien que pour le plaisir de me mesurer a un nouveau venu redoutable, une celebrite deplacee (et manifestement egaree) comme pour son habilete a persuader ses patients qu'ils avaient ete temoins de leur propre conception."
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therapy
psychiatry
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Vladimir Nabokov |
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8d9b168
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You tried so hard to give your kid food that was healthy, she thought. The soy cheese pizza. The organic peas and broccoli and baby carrots. The smoothies. The hormone-free milk. The leafy greens. You kept processed food to a minimum, threw Halloween candy out after a week. Never let him eat the icies they sold in the park, because they had red and yellow dye in them. And then you gave him this?
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psychiatric-drugs
psychotropic
psychiatry
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Sharon Guskin |
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6833cd1
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The most chronic and complex of the dissociative disorders, multiple personality disorder, was renamed multiple personality disorder, was renamed 'dissociative identity disorder' in 1994 in DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association). The rationale for the name change, was among other things, to clarify that there are not literally separate personalities in a person with dissociative identity disorder; 'personalities' was a historical term for the fragmented identity states that characterize the condition.
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dissociative-disorders
dissociative-identity-disorder
multiple-personality-disorder
psychiatry
psychology
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Colin A. Ross |
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-- A kak vy schitaete, -- ostorozhno, s miagkoi, vkradchivoi ulybkoi sprosil maior Senderson, shtatnyi psikhiatr, prislannyi polkovnikom k Iossarianu, -- pochemu polkovnik Ferridzh nashel vashi sny otvratitel'nymi? -- Navernoe, chto-to otvratitel'noe deistvitel'no est' ili v samom etom sne, ili, mozhet byt', v polkovnike Ferridzhe, -- pochtitel'no otvetil Iossarian. -- Neplokho skazano, -- odobril maior Senderson. On nosil poskripyvaiushchie soldatskie botinki, a ego chernye, kak smol', volosy stoiali dybom. -- Polkovnik Ferridzh, -- priznalsia on, -- napominaet mne morskuiu chaiku. On ni v grosh, znaete li, ne stavit psikhiatriiu. -- A vy, navernoe, ne liubite morskikh chaek? -- sprosil Iossarian. -- Da, ne ochen', -- priznalsia maior Senderson s koliuchim, nervnym smeshkom. -- Po-moemu, vash son prosto ocharovatelen. Ia nadeius', chto on budet chasto povtoriat'sia i my eshche smozhem ne raz ego obsudit'. Ne khotite li sigaretku? Iossarian pokachal golovoi, i maior ulybnulsia. -- Kak vy ob'iasnite, -- sprosil on mnogoznachitel'no, -- pochemu vy ispytyvaete takoe sil'noe nezhelanie vziat' u menia sigaretu? -- Potomu chto ia tol'ko chto odnu vykuril. Vot ona, eshche dymitsia v pepel'nitse. Maior Senderson khokhotnul. -- Nu chto zh, ves'ma iskrennee ob'iasnenie. No ia nadeius', chto my skoro dokopaemsia do istinnoi prichiny. -- Zaviazav bantikom razviazavshiisia shnurok botinka, on vzial so stola bloknot zheltoi linovannoi bumagi i polozhil ego na koleni. -- Itak, ryba, kotoruiu vy vidite vo sne... Davaite o nei pobeseduem. Eto vsegda odna i ta zhe ryba? -- Ne znaiu, -- otvetil Iossarian. -- Ia plokho razbiraius' v rybakh. -- A chto napominaet vam eta ryba? -- Druguiu rybu. -- A chto napominaet vam drugaia ryba? -- Druguiu rybu. Maior Senderson razocharovanno otkinulsia na spinku stula: -- A vy liubite rybu? -- Ne osobenno. -- Tak pochemu zhe vy schitaete, chto u vas patologicheskoe otvrashchenie k rybam? -- sprosil s triumfom maior Senderson. -- A potomu chto oni slishkom skol'zkie, -- otvetil Iossarian. -- I kostliavye. Maior Senderson ponimaiushche kivnul golovoi, ulybaias' priiatnoi, fal'shivoi ulybkoi. -- Ochen' interesnoe ob'iasnenie. No ia polagaiu, chto skoro my dokopaemsia do istinnoi prichiny. A v chastnosti, ta konkretnaia ryba, kotoruiu vy derzhite vo sne, vam nravitsia? -- Priznat'sia, ia ne ispytyvaiu k nei nikakikh osobykh chuvstv. -- Sledovatel'no, vam ne nravitsia eta ryba? A ne pitaete li vy k nei vrazhdebnoe, agressivnoe chuvstvo? -- O, niskol'ko. V sushchnosti, ona mne dazhe nravitsia. -- Sledovatel'no, na samom dele vy liubite etu rybu? -- O net. Ia ne ispytyvaiu k nei nikakikh osobykh chuvstv. -- No vy tol'ko chto skazali, chto ryba vam nravitsia, a teper' zaiavliaete, chto ne ispytyvaete k nei nikakikh chuvstv. Ia ulichil vas v protivorechii. Vot vidite? -- Da, ser, kazhetsia, vy ulichili menia v protivorechii. Tolstym chernym karandashom maior Senderson s gordost'iu nachertal v bloknote: <>. Zakonchiv pisat', on podnial golovu i skazal: -- Kak vy ob'iasnite, chto vy sdelali dva vzaimoiskliuchaiushchikh zaiavleniia, vyrazhaiushchikh vashi protivorechivye emotsii po otnosheniiu k rybe? -- Ia dumaiu, eto ottogo, chto u menia k rybam dvoistvennoe otnoshenie. Uslyshav slova <>, maior Senderson radostno vskochil: -- Vy zhe vse ponimaete! -- voskliknul on, lomaia v ekstaze pal'tsy. -- O, vy dazhe ne predstavliaete sebe, kak ia odinok: ved' izo dnia v den' mne prikhoditsia razgovarivat' s patsientami, kotorye ne imeiut ni maleishego poniatiia o psikhiatrii. Mne prikhoditsia lechit' liudei, sovershenno ravnodushnykh k moei rabote. Ot etogo u menia voznikaet uzhasnoe oshchushchenie sobstvennoi nikchemnosti. -- Ten' ozabochennosti na sekundu legla na ego litso. -- I ia ne mogu izbavit'sia ot etogo oshchushcheniia. -- V samom dele? -- sprosil Iossarian, ne znaia, chto eshche skazat'. -- No zachem korit' sebia za probely v chuzhom obrazovanii? -- Ia sam ponimaiu, chto eto glupo, -- s trevogoi v golose otvetil maior Senderson. -- No menia vsegda volnovalo, chto obo mne podumaiut liudi. Vidite li, v polovom otnoshenii ia sozrel neskol'ko pozzhe svoikh sverstnikov. I na etoi pochve u menia voznik psikhicheskii kompleks, ia by dazhe skazal, uima kompleksov.
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psychiatry
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Joseph Heller |
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3ac696e
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The fading relevance of the nature-nurture argument has recently been revived by the rise of evolutionary psychology. A more sophisticated understanding of Darwinian evolution (survival of the fittest) has led to theories about the possible evolutionary value of some psychiatric disorders. A simplistic view would predict that all mental illnesses with a genetic component should lower survival and ought to die out. 'Inclusive fitness', however, assesses the evolutionary value of a characteristic not simply on whether it helps that individual to survive but whether it makes it more likely that their offspring will survive. Richard Dawkins's 1976 book The Selfish Gene gives convincing explanations of the evolutionary advantages of group support and altruism when individuals sacrifice themselves for others. A range of speculative hypotheses have since been proposed for the evolutionary advantage of various behaviour differences and mental illnesses. Many of these draw on ethological games-theory (i.e. the benefits of any behaviour can only be understood in the context of the behaviour of other members of the group). So depression might be seen as a safe response to 'defeat' in a hierarchical group because it makes the individual withdraw from conflict while they recover. Mania, conversely, with its expansiveness and increased sexual activity, is proposed as a response to success in a hierarchical tussle promoting the propagation of that individual's genes. Changes in behaviour that look like depression and hypomania can be clearly seen in primates as they move up and down the pecking order that dominates their lives. The habitual isolation and limited need for social contact of individuals with schizophrenia has been rather imaginatively proposed as adaptive to remote habitats with low food supplies (and also a protection against the risk of infectious diseases and epidemics). Evolutionary psychology will undoubtedly increasingly influence psychiatric thinking - many of our disorders fit poorly into a classical 'medical model'. Already it has helped establish a less either-or approach to the discussion. It is, however, a highly controversial area - not so much around mental disorders but in relation to social behaviour and particularly to gender specific behaviour. Here it is often interpreted as excusing a very male-orientated, exploitative worldview. Luckily that is someone else's battle.
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mind
depression
evolutionary-psychology
the-selfish-gene
mania
mental-illness
psychiatry
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Tom Burns |