Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.

“One is not likely to learn much about human beings, by way of psychoanalysis or otherwise, if one adheres unwaveringly to a theory, no…

— Miltiades Zaphiropoulous

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

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