Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.” — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience. — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
“the secretive oedipal couple and the excluded children so prevalent in psychoanalytic institutes. The “paranoiagenic” (Jaques, 1976) atmosphere of psychoanalytic institutes, the” — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts. — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“psychoanalytic institute as a university college, as an institution for the transmission, exploration, and generation of knowledge, including” — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
“paranoid atmosphere that often pervades psychoanalytic institutes and its devastating effect on the “quality of life” in psychoanalytic education. Members” — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
“The narcissistic gratifications involved in psychoanalytic training, such as professional advancement, the unconscious misuse of the therapeutic relationship as an expression of… — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
In my opinion, advocating, allowing and practicing psychiatric and psychoanalytic dogmas within the church is every bit as pagan and heretical (and… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“As with good history, good psychoanalytic interpretations must also make sense, pull together as much of the known data as possible, provide… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic categories such as "neurosis", "psychosis", "mania", and "fixation" have become part of our everyday psychological vocabulary and we now routinely interpret… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that psychoanalytic theory predicted. Neither have they… — Sandra Scarr 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
In early psychoanalytic thought, narcissism was - and still, of course, is - self-love. The early psychoanalysts used to talk of libido… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
“My whole life I’d lived off the one wretched ambition that still possessed me: to be more than I was; to reject… — Mela Hartwig Copy Share Image
“But the boys' bicycle pack also sent a stab of envy through me. If I couldn't yet capture John Cleary with my… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“[T]he psychoanalytic process should be understood as occurring between subjects rather than within the individual. Mental life is seen from an intersubjective… — Jessica Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when a person is not being heard, it is appropriate to blame him or her. Perhaps he or she is speaking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Because psychoanalytic institutes have not attempted to develop such functional administrative structures, the prevalent defenses of idealization and feelings of persecution have… — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
“second model, that of a technical or trade school, would conceive the primary task of psychoanalytic education to be the learning of… — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite… — Caryl Rivers Copy Share Image
People change, but there really are limits. One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
“Dream by dream I am educating myself to become that rare character, rarer, in truth, than any member of the Psychoanalytic Institute,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I found myself fascinated by neuroscience, attended a monthly lecture on brain science at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and was invited… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Freud expressed the opinion-not quite in earnest, though, it seeemed to me-that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed… — Ludwig Binswanger Copy Share Image
Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the lesson that what my… — Heinz Kohut Copy Share Image
“training analysts that utilizes the exacerbation of idealization processes inherent in psychoanalytic training to consolidate its power and the related narcissistic gratification… — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
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