Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

— Germaine Greer

“Sigmund Freud, the father of Psychoanalysis, in Beyond the pleasure principle”

— Lee Vickers

“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 way of…

— David Rakoff

“his understanding of transference in the therapeutic relationship and the presumed value of dreams as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He is commonly…

— Sigmund Freud

“Sigmund Freud, the father of psychiatry and an atheist, theorized that one’s attitude toward one’s father largely shaped one’s attitude toward God.”

— Dennis Prager

If psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaism’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is the late 20th century’s…

— David Rakoff

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

— Germaine Greer

Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as…

— Thomas Merton

Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be learning how to darn socks.

— Sigmund Freud

“what is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.”

— Hans Eysenck

Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of…

— Emile M. Cioran

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it…

— Albert Ellis

In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People…

— Eric Kandel