the secretive oedipal couple and the excluded children so…

“Because psychoanalytic institutes have not attempted to develop such functional administrative structures, the prevalent defenses of idealization and feelings of persecution have contributed to…

— Otto F. Kernberg

“paranoid atmosphere that often pervades psychoanalytic institutes and its devastating effect on the “quality of life” in psychoanalytic education. Members”

— Otto F. Kernberg

“training analysts that utilizes the exacerbation of idealization processes inherent in psychoanalytic training to consolidate its power and the related narcissistic gratification by exercising…

— Otto F. Kernberg

“psychoanalytic institute as a university college, as an institution for the transmission, exploration, and generation of knowledge, including”

— Otto F. Kernberg

“The narcissistic gratifications involved in psychoanalytic training, such as professional advancement, the unconscious misuse of the therapeutic relationship as an expression of power, basking…

— Otto F. Kernberg

“Subtle but significant superego pathology may easily go undetected throughout psychoanalytic training and only emerge later in trivialization, cynical relativism, messianic deterioration, and rigidly…

— Otto F. Kernberg

“psychoanalytic institutes as monasteries or religious retreats and psychoanalysis as a system of religious beliefs. Whereas”

— Otto F. Kernberg

“As with good history, good psychoanalytic interpretations must also make sense, pull together as much of the known data as possible, provide a coherent…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the drive to…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant…

— Thomas Szasz

“Sometimes when a person is not being heard, it is appropriate to blame him or her. Perhaps he or she is speaking obscurely; perhaps…

— Anonymous

Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country…

— Siri Hustvedt

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion…

— Tony Campolo

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

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