To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

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 fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart?

If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjusted to the crazy scheme of things and spare yourself the humiliation of becoming a Christian Scientist. You can have your ego trimmed or removed, as you wish, just like a wart or bunion.

You go to psychiatrist when your slightly cracked and keep going until you're completely broke.

The difference between a neurotic, a psychotic, and a psychiatrist. The neurotic builds castles in the sky, the psychotic lives in them and the psychiatrist collects the rent.

It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents shortcomings.

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