Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental…

. . . . [P]ersons who love very much, easily take offense at trifles. No doubt your excessive affection for me makes you a…

— Vincent de Paul

For decades now, [Fuller] Torrey has been warning America what would happen if the dangerously mentally ill were deinstitutionalized, and it's all come true.…

— Ann Coulter

“And Kate thought about a time, long ago, when she had witnessed an ongoing romance between two mental patients. As a teenager watching their…

— Sabrynne McLain

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

— Nelson DeMille

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she…

— Ornette Coleman

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

— Thomas Szasz

The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of…

— Herbert Marcuse

The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.

— Erik Erikson

“second model, that of a technical or trade school, would conceive the primary task of psychoanalytic education to be the learning of a clearly…

— Otto F. Kernberg

Freud expressed the opinion-not quite in earnest, though, it seeemed to me-that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed sexuality, nothing…

— Ludwig Binswanger

“the secretive oedipal couple and the excluded children so prevalent in psychoanalytic institutes. The “paranoiagenic” (Jaques, 1976) atmosphere of psychoanalytic institutes, the”

— Otto F. Kernberg

The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or political facts…

— Erich Fromm

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

— Robert Jay Lifton

Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable beneath that…

— Stanislaw Lem

Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the best years…

— Paul Goodman