Psychiatry

Quotes & Thinkers in Psychiatry

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Viktor Frankl
🇦🇹Viktor Frankl
Psychology
1905–1997
"There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life."
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Carl Jung
🇩🇪Carl Jung
Psychology
1852–1924
"You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return."
121 quotes
Frantz Fanon
🇫🇷Frantz Fanon
Philosophy
decoloniality
1925–1961
"We are nothing on earth if we are not in the first place the slaves of a cause, the cause of the peoples, the cause of justice and liberty."
34 quotes
Thomas Szasz
🇭🇺Thomas Szasz
Education
1920–2012
"Liberty and the Practice of Psychotherapy: An Interview with Thomas Szasz"
66 quotes
Alfred Adler
🇦🇹Alfred Adler
Medicine
Neo-Freudianism
1870–1937
"Man knows much more than he understands."
4 quotes
Cesare Lombroso
Cesare Lombroso
Medicine
1835–1909
"Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaningof a passage in his poem. He replied, "God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows."
7 quotes
Eric Berne
🇨🇦Eric Berne
Psychology
1910–1970
"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing."
4 quotes
W. Ross Ashby
W. Ross Ashby
Science
1903–1972
"The concept of "variety" inseparable from that of "information."
23 quotes
Viktor E. Frankl
🇦🇹Viktor E. Frankl
Psychology
1905–1997
"We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies."
3 quotes
Wafa Sultan
🇺🇸Wafa Sultan
Medicine
ر
b. 1958
"The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force."
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🇬🇧Tade Thompson
Literature
b. 1950
4 quotes
Aaron Beck
🇺🇸Aaron Beck
Psychology
1921–2021
"Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions."
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🇺🇸Jonathan Shay
Psychology
b. 1941
2 quotes
Eric Kandel
🇦🇹Eric Kandel
Medicine
b. 1929
"Because we do not have a sensory organ dedicated to space, the representation of space is a quintessentially cognitive sensibility: it is the binding problem writ large."
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