Today the function of
Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man. Erich Fromm
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Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man. Erich Fromm
Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid. Erica Jong
It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common wheel. Edward Thorndike
Where I come from these days, anybody who isn’t seeing a therapist needs to. Edna Buchanan
Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That’s not history, that’s psychiatry. Ed Koch
The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian and Jungian psychiatry, beyond the dubious psi-realms of Dr. Rhine, beyond the areas policed by the commissars and priests and motivations-research men, far, far beyond the mad, beat, half-hysterical laughter… … Read more
If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are even more affected by what I have called the scientistic prejudice, and by specious claims of what science can achieve. Friedrich August von Hayek
Psychiatric services – that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living – are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail. Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
Through the miracles of modern medicine George Burns still chases pretty girls, and through the miracle of modern psychiatry he intends to find out why! Frank Welker
The Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of monsters. In their view, the monsters reach up, grab you by the ankles, and try to drag you down. Doris Lessing