Danger to Self Quotes

“I love my job when I'm not there.”
― Paul R. Linde, Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist

“His story and the detailed nature of his belief system make me suspect that he is suffering from paranoid ideas. I love that: I'm suspicious that Mr. Hill is suspicious. It makes me think of those now yellowing crime-fighting signs from ten or fifteen years earlier that say: Report suspicious people.

Suspicious people report suspicious people. Suspicious people report suspicious people report suspicious people.

Add paranoia, stir and repeat, stir and repeat, stir and repeat.”
― Paul R. Linde, Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist

“Believing a patient's lies is not a professional failure. Psychiatrists are trained to detect, understand, and treat psychopathology, not to function as lie detectors. While a certain level of suspicion is essential in the practice of psychiatry, clinicians, determined never to be taken in by deceitful patients, will approach them with such exaggerated suspicion that therapeutic work will be impossible.”
― Paul R. Linde, Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist

“You can ask ten different psychiatrists what they might do in a given situation, and you might get ten different answers. And it's possible that none of them would be wrong.”
― Paul R. Linde, Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist

“According to the forensic psychiatrist Robert Simon, the author of Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream, the following statements are true: "Psychiatrists have long known that the most dangerous time is during the first visit with an unknown patient. According to an American Psychiatric Association Task Force Report, 40% of psychiatrists are assaulted during their careers. Nearly three-fourths of assaults against all physicians occurred during the first meeting of doctor and patient.”
― Paul R. Linde, Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist

“Our work is deeply rooted in respect for the patient. Most of us want to help people who often have been left behind and forgotten by society.”
― Paul R. Linde, Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist