The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Clinical training in psychoanalysis has a deficit. It teaches how to sit and think about what a person is saying and how… — Marshall B. Rosenberg 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
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
Anybody who is anybody seems to be getting a lift - by plastic surgery these days. It's the new world wide craze… — Eugenia Sheppard 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
“One is not likely to learn much about human beings, by way of psychoanalysis or otherwise, if one adheres unwaveringly to a… — Miltiades Zaphiropoulous Copy Share Image
“...people are no longer interested in analysis. They all prefer catharsis now. They all prefer to say that they are helpless and… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
“The capacity to form attachments on equal terms is considered evidence of emotional maturity. It is the absence of this capacity which… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
When I started to get disillusioned with psychoanalysis I reread philosophy and was reminded of the constructivist notion that Epictetus had proposed… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
“Indeed psychoanalysis makes sense only as part of the larger cultural conversation in the arts that became known as modernism. Vienna, where… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
“Here libido and ego-interest share the same fate and have once more become indistinguishable from each other. The familiar egoism of the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I consider it as a foreshadowing of modernity in many different respects, and the consistency of character is interesting to the emerging… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
“Psihanalistul devine regizorul unui teatru privat - in loc sa fie inginerul sau mecanicul care monteaza unitati de productie, care se lupta… — Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari 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
I volunteered for an LSD session. It was such a powerful opening of my own unconscious that I became more interested in… — Stanislav Grof 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“Anyway, I don't trust those people who poke around sad people's minds and tell them how interesting it all is up there.… — Ottessa Moshfegh 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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“The fact is that a true human privilege is based upon the anatomical privilege only in virtue of the total situation. Psychoanalysis… — Simone de Beauvoir 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
Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be learning how to darn socks. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Patients coming for consultation complain about headaches, sexual disturbances, inhibitions in work, or other symptoms; as a rule, they do not complain… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“From an analytic point of view, the only thing one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one’s desire… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
