I have great respect for psychiatry and great contempt for meddling amateurs who go around practicing it.

— Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn)

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7 seconds sound clip from the Miracle on 34th Street (1947) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:53:36 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Yeah, I just sit in a chair and say anything that comes into my head.

- Excuse me. A few things have just come into my head, and I'm going to say them.

- What do you mean bursting into my office like this?

- Are you a licensed psychiatrist?

- What business is it of yours?

- I have great respect for psychiatry and great contempt for meddling amateurs who go around practicing it.

- You have no more right to analyze Alfred than a dentist has to remove a gallbladder.

- I beg your pardon!

- Your job here, I understand, is to give intelligence tests.

- Passing yourself off as a psychologist. You ought to be horsewhipped.

[...]

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