Bother Quote by Albert Ellis

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it…

— Albert Ellis

Early in my career, I was disappointed that psychoanalysis was not becoming more empirical, was not becoming more scientific. It was primarily concerned with…

— Eric Kandel

Freudian therapists do a lot of listening and very little persuading, and that was one of the reasons I eventually gave up being an…

— Albert Ellis

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

— Albert Ellis

There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.

— Carl Jung

The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my…

— Jessica Lange

The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of which they…

— Albert Ellis

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

— Karl Kraus

The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science.…

— Eric Kandel

All along, I've been writing about our fears, our longings, our fantasies, our ambivalences. When I decided to study psychoanalysis, I did it because…

— Judith Viorst

Most people do not benefit from psychoanalysis because the trauma lies not in this life but in a past life.

— Alexander Cannon

Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but…

— Karl A. Menninger