Psychs on Psychs

“Suicide, stress, divorce—psychologists and other mental health professionals may actually be more screwed up than the rest of us. The occurrence of suicides by psychiatrists is quite constant year to year, indicating a relatively stable oversupply of depressed psychiatrists.”

—Robert Epstein, Ph.D., “Why Shrinks Have So Many Problems,” Psychology Today, July/August 1997

“From talk-shows to courtroom commentaries to news bites, psychologists inundate the public with their messages such that the cumulative effect has been to change peoples’ beliefs about their own competency and the way they look at life. Intruding not only into the bedrooms of the nation…but into the schools, workplaces, and the courts of the nation, psychologists have embarked upon activities of self-promotion, both to expand the demand for their services and to set themselves apart as superior.”

—Dr. Tana Dineen, Manufacturing Victims (1996, Robert Davies Publishing)

“These ‘therapies’ have nothing in common with real therapies in medicine except the label. To categorize insight into one’s unconscious with penicillin, renal dialysis, and an appendectomy is to approach asininity. You can stamp a caduceus onto Santa Claus’s forehead, too, but that will not make him a doctor.”

—Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, The Death of Psychiatry, (1974, Chilton Book Company) p. 54