A biography for Drew Pinskyhasn’t been written yet.
“An Internet 'relationship' doesn't have to be catastrophically harmful to be inappropriate. Hurtful is bad enough.”
“You should hear all the people talking to me about Heath Ledger, and yet I'm the only person shooting his mouth off out there about what everyone actually already knows.”
“I don't want people to think I'm exploiting my followers.”
“When you get your viral load down to zero, you reduce the risk of transmission of HIV by 90 percent.”
“Trauma survivors have a deficiency in their capacity to regulate emotions - they're too prolonged and too intense and too negative. As a corollary to affect regulation, self-esteem, sense of self and inter-personal functioning all goes downhill. And that's a chronic thing that's solved in an-inter personal context.”
“Nothing demonstrates a celebrity's basic drive for attention more powerfully than a willingness to check one's dignity at the door, week after week, in front of millions of viewers.”
“Remember, you're not always the professional.”
“Humans need intimacy. We've destroyed it in our country.”
“Big people take care of little people; we must live up to that trust.”
“I always hate taking categorical positions.”
“Women are upset if their partner has an intimate conversation of any kind with someone who isn't them. They consider it a violation, a betrayal. Men should think this way, but they don't.”
“All medicine is gradations and differences and nuances. And there's such a thing as natural recovery: people spontaneously get better. It happens.”
“If people fit together, they fit for a reason. It's usually the sickest part of one person fitting into the attraction of the sickest part of another.”
“For me, addiction exposes all of the brain mechanism under the influence of a profoundly distorted primary motivation. It's such a window into how we function as human beings. And the patient doesn't know that's happening! Doesn't believe that's happening! That's the fascinating part.”
“I love running in Central Park.”
“I love everything about the human experience.”
“Particularly women need to pay attention to what is unique to their own personal biology and emotional systems, and not deny it.”
“Romeo and Juliet' is two love addicts acting out, and look how that ended.”
“Addiction has a worse prognosis than most cancers. I tell someone they have cancer and they want to be airlifted to a cancer treatment center; I tell someone they have an addiction and they're going to die and they want to argue with me about the treatment.”
“In the late 90s I was hired to participate in a 2 year initiative discussing intimacy and depression which was funded by an educational grant by Glaxo Wellcome.”