In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems…

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

Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits

— Frederick Crews

“But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for which he personally had little use) and…

— Robertson Davies

The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of which they…

— Albert Ellis

“Indeed psychoanalysis makes sense only as part of the larger cultural conversation in the arts that became known as modernism. Vienna, where Freud lived…

— Adam Phillips

So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.

— Karl Kraus

Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial…

— Carl Jung

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

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

— Karl Kraus