I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Being a good psychoanalyst has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up. — Morton Hunt Copy Share Image
I went to a psychoanalyst. He explained things about my love life that I found very impressive... almost scary. — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
I'm going to my psychoanalyst one more year, then I'm going to Lourdes. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
My stepfather was a psychoanalyst. You might think he'd have known better than to hit kids. — Chevy Chase Copy Share Image
Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow… — Morton Hunt Copy Share Image
I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients. — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst. — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“The modern materialist often makes it simply: "Do what you like," and then rushes off to ask his psychoanalyst when he no… — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
“the Buddha may well have been the original psychoanalyst, or, at least, the first to use the mode of analytic inquiry that… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
...an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a "microsurgeon of the mind" who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks. — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
Keeping one's eyes open, listening, watching, being quiet, adopting some of the techniques of the psychoanalyst in talking to people, will bring… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The stereotype of psychotherapy portrayed in popular books and movies is lying on the couch and saying whatever comes into your mind,… — David D. Burns 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
Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is… — Italo Calvino 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
Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“Only that I've never met a psychoanalyst who didn't – at least subconsciously – offer his system as a substitute for religion.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If you can't, or won't, think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoanalyst. You just do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject.… — Louise Thaden 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
“So what do they do with their hands? Curiously, the most popular image of the listening psychoanalyst ascribes a notepad to them.… — Darian Leader Copy Share Image
“The teacher is taught by his students, the actor is stimulated by his audience, the psychoanalyst is cured by his patient—provided they… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper. — Will Self Copy Share Image
“A great psychoanalyst, Wilhelm Reich , was asked once—because he was studying children, their problems—he was asked, 'What is the most basic… — Osho Copy Share Image
You can go to a psychoanalyst one day and then go the next day and something else will come out. So, yes,… — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share Image
“It was regarded as almost outside the proper interest of an analyst to give systematic attention to a person's real experiences.” — John Bowlby Copy Share Image
