Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed… — Thomas Szasz 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
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“It so happens that the primary though - as an act of thought - already has a form and is more easily… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth,… — D. M. Thomas Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis provides truth in an infantile, that is, a schoolboy fashion: we learn from it, roughly and hurriedly, things that scandalize us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Biology is a way of approaching the truth about the mind. In biology most people don't tackle problems at the level of… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“The classic psychoanalytical interpretation of la belle indifférence is that it is evidence that an intrapsychic conflict has been converted and kept… — Jon Stone Copy Share Image
“It is naturally a sign of inner liberation when a patient can squarely recognize his difficulties and take them with a grain… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
I have heard about a patient - the psychiatrist was bored with him. Of course, he was getting enough money out of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
That's always been like a fascination to me - watching my family, three sisters and a brother and all growing up basically… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
“Indeed, analyst Robert Bak calls orgasm "the perfect promise between love and death," the means by which we repatriate separation of mother… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The notion of dream interpretation far antedates the birth of psychoanalysis, and probably served an important function in most, if not all,… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“In psychoanalytical theory there is a phenomenon called transference. The therapist becomes a blank screen, onto which the patient projects some incident… — Jodi Picoult 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
“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
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
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
“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
Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification,… — Sherwin B. Nuland 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
A Dream of Undying Fame is a probing, elegant and balanced book. Louis Breger shows how Freud’s traumatic childhood shaped his ambitious,… — Brenda Webster 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
“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
