Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God. What I'm saying… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“The greatest psychopathologist has been Freud. Freud was a hero. He descended to the “Underworld” and met there stark terrors. He carried… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life more comfortable, is… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Melancholia for Freud is the relationship that the subject takes up with respect to itself from the position of what he calls… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
At first the analysing physician could do no more than discover the unconscious material that was concealed from the patient, put it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“young children, who for whatever reason are deprived of the continuous care and attention of a mother or a substitute-mother, are not… — John Bowlby Copy Share Image
“if psychoanalysis was late-19th-century secular Judaism's way of constructing spiritual meaning in a post-religious world and retail is the late 20th century's… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Even philosophies who have denounced pseudosciences like psychoanalysis, have condoned pseudoscientific economic theories like neoclassical microeconomics. It is far safer and easier… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
If there's a lot of fear that's going on, if there's a lot of anxiety, it's manifesting itself in your nocturnal world… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between… — Cathy Caruth Copy Share Image
“Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Freudian therapists do a lot of listening and very little persuading, and that was one of the reasons I eventually gave up… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
To say that historical conditions made personal life possible, and with it the self-consciousness that allowed psychoanalysis to emerge, is to tell… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Biology is a way of approaching the truth about the mind. In biology most people don't tackle problems at the level of… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“The classic psychoanalytical interpretation of la belle indifférence is that it is evidence that an intrapsychic conflict has been converted and kept… — Jon Stone Copy Share Image
“It is naturally a sign of inner liberation when a patient can squarely recognize his difficulties and take them with a grain… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth,… — D. M. Thomas Copy Share Image
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“It so happens that the primary though - as an act of thought - already has a form and is more easily… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“The termination phase of psychoanalysis Working-through of mourning, typical of the termination phase of psychoanalysis, brings forth the working through of the… — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
“Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis provides truth in an infantile, that is, a schoolboy fashion: we learn from it, roughly and hurriedly, things that scandalize us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
