German Psychiatrist Quotes

Karl Jaspers

Emil Kraepelin

Ernst Kretschmer

Fritz Perls

Fredric Wertham

I do my thing, and you do your thing...
You are you and I am I,
And if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful; If not, it can't be helped.

When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and overwhelming events; when we contemplate a history that seems to be at an end, leaving only chaos behind it, then we are impelled to raise ourselves above history.

He screamed out, 'Take the soup away!
O take the nasty soup away!
I won't have any soup today.'

Heinrich Hoffmann

Psychiatric services — that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living — are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

The mental vigor of most men is usually maintained at a certain height for the longest time in the forenoon. The evidences of fatigue come on later at this time of day than in the evening, when the store of force in our brain has been already considerably drawn upon by the whole day's work.

The psychopaths are always around. In calm times we study them, but in times of upheaval, they rule over us.

Ernst Kretschmer

The Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasies, of the nature of which they may be unconscious.

Fredric Wertham