Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out…

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between…

— Sam Taylor-Wood

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It's a…

— Jason Beghe

But man has other needs as well: emotional needs. These, too, are few, but every bit as important as his physical requirements, yet not…

— Leo Buscaglia

The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic…

— Jacques Lacan

if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes…

— Paulo Coelho

Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes…

— Albert Ellis

“Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in…

— Sigmund Freud

The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.

— Thomas Szasz

“We can postulate that there must be diseases founded on a conflict between ego and super-ego. Analysis gives us the right to infer that…

— Sigmund Freud

Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

— Karl Abraham

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is…

— Daniel Keyes

Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in…

— Sigmund Freud

A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a…

— Sigmund Freud

When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate... Fans and other obnoxious pests would do…

— Henry Miller