Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Early in my career, I was disappointed that psychoanalysis was not becoming more empirical, was not becoming more scientific. It was primarily… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
I don't know of any way to control the subject of one's dreams although I'm fairly certain there are more than a… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
“ On Christmas. "Santa Claus represents God on assistance," said Clyde. "Santa Claus is a negative-idealed god, the pagan god of material… — Milton Rokeach Copy Share Image
“The rub is that any work of nonsense abounds with so many inviting symbols that you can start with any assumption you… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“Leon was less withdrawn, more friendly, and he was, much of the time, in contact with reality. He was, in other words,… — Milton Rokeach Copy Share Image
“We speak more freely of our emotional complexes than of our material condition or of our socio-professional milieu; we prefer to ask… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I read a lot by female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé, who wrote prominent biographies of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud because she studied with… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“The central inner conflict is one between the constructive forces of the real self and the obstructive forces of the pride system,… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
My songs are very much a kind of psychoanalysis. I am very introspective in my songs, and I am working through, always. — Vic Chesnutt Copy Share Image
The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The purported insight achieved by the patient is not the product of a process of veridical self-discovery, but rather reflects the patient’s… — Adolf Grünbaum Copy Share Image
Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“It is quite natural to think of the self as something concrete, but it is, in fact, nothing of the sort. Rather,… — Neel Burton 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
I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a… — LaTanya Richardson Copy Share Image
“And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God. What I'm saying… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“The freeing of an individual, as he grows up, from the authority of his parents is one of the most necessary though… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“This and countless later experiences working in and around the world of "shrinks" and the mentally ill has led me to the… — Oliver James Copy Share Image
“Why we ask questions: Questions are the basis of human freedom. Our mind, as a part of our self experience, is curious… — Christopher Bollas Copy Share Image
Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Confessionalism relates to writers of color. I think confessional poetry is in its way very Catholic, capital C. One of the formative… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
