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Psychiatry is a medical specialty devoted to the treatment, study and prevention of mental disorder. The term was first coined by the German physician Johann Christian Reil in 1808. Psychiatric assessment typically involves a mental status examination and the taking of a case history; and psychological tests may be conducted. Physical examinations may be carried out and on occasion neuroimages or other neurophysiological measurements taken. Diagnostic procedures vary. Official criteria are... full article at wikipedia

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Nov 19, 1975
The Silence of the Lambs	Feb 14, 1991
Batman Begins	Jun 15, 2005
What's New Pussycat?	1965
Analyze This	Mar 5, 1999
Analyze That	Dec 6, 2002
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Brainstorms	Daniel Dennett
The Hero with a Thousand Faces	Joseph Campbell
The Interpretation of Dreams	Sigmund Freud
The Souls of Black Folk	W.E.B. Du Bois
Steps to an Ecology of Mind	Gregory Bateson
The Art of Seduction	Robert Greene
IQ and the Wealth of Nations	Tatu Vanhanen
Madness and Civilization	Michel Foucault
A Return to Love	Marianne Williamson
The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis	Jacques Lacan
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Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined.	Samuel Goldwyn
Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it.	Thomas Szasz
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.	Antonin Artaud
You go to psychiatrist when your slightly cracked and keep going until you're completely broke.		Unknown
It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.	Sigmund Freud
Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.	Oscar Levant
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.		Unknown
It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius.	Antonin Artaud
Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married -- the other half because they're not.	Arnold H. Glasgow
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.	Marshall McLuhan
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