Accounts Quote by Abraham Maslow

“Subtle but significant superego pathology may easily go undetected throughout psychoanalytic training and only emerge later in trivialization, cynical relativism, messianic deterioration, and rigidly…

— Otto F. Kernberg

“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

“Chasseguet-Smirgel and Grunberger (1986) have described how psychoanalytic thinking and understanding can be transformed into an ideology or political program containing messianic and/or paranoid…

— Otto F. Kernberg

Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the…

— Antonio Lobo Antunes

“Only that I've never met a psychoanalyst who didn't – at least subconsciously – offer his system as a substitute for religion. Present company…

— Frank Herbert

“Because psychoanalytic institutes have not attempted to develop such functional administrative structures, the prevalent defenses of idealization and feelings of persecution have contributed to…

— Otto F. Kernberg

“We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the…

— H.P. Lovecraft

Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight…

— Kenny Smith

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

— Bernard Berenson

“felicitous intuition so prevalent in the bourgeoisies of non-Western countries, and most particularly Muslim countries, saw psychoanalysis as a “scientific sharing of confidences” invented…

— Orhan Pamuk

Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set…

— Gilles Deleuze

Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you cast out…

— Joseph Campbell