“How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital?
The patients get better and leave.”

Source: Every Fifteen Minutes

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American writer 1955

Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“[People] always tell me, “Weiwei, leave the nation, please.” Or “Live longer and watch them die.” Either leave, or be patient and watch how they die. I really don’t know what I’m going to do.”

Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist

2010-, The City: Beijing, 2011

“I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.”

Oscar Levant (1906–1972) American comedian, composer, pianist and actor

As quoted in Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past (2005) edited by Carol A. Dingle.

“This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.”

Charles Baudelaire book Le Spleen de Paris

Cette vie est un hôpital où chaque malade est possédé du désir de changer de lit. <br class="br">XLVIII: "Anywhere out of the world" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Anywhere_out_of_the_world <br class="br">Le Spleen de Paris (1862) <br class="br">Source: On Wine and Hashish

“We can allow for Slow Medicine beds in our hospitals so that doctors have enough time to find out what is really wrong with a patient, and patients have enough time to heal.”

Victoria Sweet Physician

Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing (2017)

“In this book, we have reported on a behavioral research study of hospital patients that included a post-hospital follow-up and an investigation of patients'families, We have in brief attempted to state what the borderline syndrome is and speculate on the how and the why.”

Roy R. Grinker, Sr. (1900–1993) American psychiatrist and neurologist

Source: The borderline syndrome, (1968), p. v

“The day has not only passed, it has long since passed, when we could visualize a healthy psychiatrist confronting a sick patient.”

Martti Siirala (1889–1948) Finnish philosopher

Medicine in Metamorphosis (2003).

“As an aesthetic surgeon, one simply knows a difficult or dangerous or unhappy patient when one sees one. This learned response to the difficult patient places the surgeon in the position of the psychiatrist. The history of aesthetic surgery runs remarkably parallel to that of psychoanalysis as well as psychosomatic medicine.”

Sander Gilman (1944) American historian

page 14.
Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul (1998)