Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I started in '69 to have psychoanalysis, and I realised very soon that I was changing, and that's I think why my… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
The point of psychoanalysis is to really understand the roots of your behavior. Understand why you are doing the things you're doing… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it… — Frederick Crews Copy Share Image
“A vida brota a partir de milhares de fontes vibrantes, entrega-se à todos que a agarram, recusa-se a ser expressa em frases… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people are intimidated not because you're superior, but they fear your presence may make them conscious of their choice of remaining… — Ramana Pemmaraju Copy Share Image
All along, I've been writing about our fears, our longings, our fantasies, our ambivalences. When I decided to study psychoanalysis, I did… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The greatest psychopathologist has been Freud. Freud was a hero. He descended to the “Underworld” and met there stark terrors. He carried… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
“But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I must take… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Freud is usually viewed as the person who linked psychoanalysis to some issues in the environment, usually man-made. So I thought it… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
“For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis teaches one thing, he thought: Nothing ever happens in a vacuum. A single bad act can have all sorts of repercussions. — John Katzenbach Copy Share Image
People always tease me. They say, look at you, you went for so much psychoanalysis and you're so neurotic, you wind up… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“The termination phase of psychoanalysis Working-through of mourning, typical of the termination phase of psychoanalysis, brings forth the working through of the… — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can't explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“As soon as they leave, Leon says to me: "I disagree, sir. There are people who aren't insane, and I'm one of… — Milton Rokeach Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis comes down to the process itself - the self, and life. I think I can say that I'm friends with the… — Malcolm Morley Copy Share Image
For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis. — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar,… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
After my son died, I went to a psychiatrist. He proved - or I proved - that Sigmund Freud was correct when… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
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