The 13 laws of Psychiatry

1. There are no laws in psychiatry. 
2. Psychiatrists specialize in their own defects. 
3. At a psychiatric emergency, the first procedure is to check your own mental status.
4. The patient is not the only one with the disease, or without it.
5. In psychiatry, first comes treatment, then comes diagnosis.
6. The worst psychiatrists charge the most, and world experts are the worst.
7. Medical school is a liability in becoming a psychotherapist.
8. Your colleagues will hurt you more than your patients.
9. You can learn everything about a person by the way he or she plays a sport.
10. Medical patients don’t take their medication fifty percent of the time, and psychiatric patients don’t take their medication much at all.
11. Therapy is part of life, and vice versa.
12. Healing in psychotherapy has nothing to do with psychology; connection, not self, heals.
13. The delivery of psychiatric care is to know as little as possible, and to understand as much as possible, about living through sorrows with others.

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