Cases Quote by Albert Einstein

You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself…

— Sydney, Lady Morgan

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the…

— Andrew Solomon

“While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud’s work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the…

— Andrew Solomon

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

— Nathaniel Branden

“Often, people build stories in their mind which have no basis in the contours of reality. Those which build these images, are building such…

— Will Barnes

“In truly effective thinking the prime necessity is to liquidate judgments, regain an innocent eye, disentangle feelings, be curious and open-hearted.”

— Walter Lippmann

“Freud says that imagination is driven by primal and potentially savage desires.”

— Peter Gilboy

“[T]he psychoanalytic process should be understood as occurring between subjects rather than within the individual. Mental life is seen from an intersubjective perspective. Although…

— Jessica Benjamin

We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or…

— Carl Jung

“How easy it is for people to become trapped in their conceptual prisons. The human mind, in its desire to know, understand, and control,…

— Eckhart Tolle

“Thinking, even when thinking is difficult, versus nonthinking Awareness, even when awareness is challenging, versus unawareness Clarity, whether or not it comes easily, versus…

— Nathaniel Branden

We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.

— Robert E. Ornstein