Most people do not benefit from psychoanalysis because the trauma lies not in this life but in a past life. — Alexander Cannon Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis. — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing. — Paul Lynde Copy Share Image
My songs are very much a kind of psychoanalysis. I am very introspective in my songs, and I am working through, always. — Vic Chesnutt Copy Share Image
My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Clinical training in psychoanalysis has a deficit. It teaches how to sit and think about what a person is saying and how… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell… — Andrew Sarris Copy Share Image
Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a… — LaTanya Richardson Copy Share Image
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“One is not likely to learn much about human beings, by way of psychoanalysis or otherwise, if one adheres unwaveringly to a… — Miltiades Zaphiropoulous Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
When I started to get disillusioned with psychoanalysis I reread philosophy and was reminded of the constructivist notion that Epictetus had proposed… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
“Indeed psychoanalysis makes sense only as part of the larger cultural conversation in the arts that became known as modernism. Vienna, where… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
“The capacity to form attachments on equal terms is considered evidence of emotional maturity. It is the absence of this capacity which… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
I consider it as a foreshadowing of modernity in many different respects, and the consistency of character is interesting to the emerging… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“Here libido and ego-interest share the same fate and have once more become indistinguishable from each other. The familiar egoism of the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for which he personally had little… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Even the simple act which we describe as 'seeing someone we know' is, to some extent, an intellectual process. We pack the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“As adults, we have many inhibitions against crying. We feel it is an expression of weakness, or femininity or of childishness. The… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“The freeing of an individual, as he grows up, from the authority of his parents is one of the most necessary though… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“There is nothing. Only warm, primordial blackness. Your conscience ferments in it — no larger than a single grain of malt. You… — Robert Kurvitz Copy Share Image
I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“One criticism of Freud still sometimes heard on the political Left is that his thinking is individualist — that he substitutes ‘private’… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
It is likely enough that the patient will say, Why don't you say something? Or if not the patient, the relatives -… — Wilfred Bion Copy Share Image
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