Deeper 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

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

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion…

— Stanislav Grof

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth…

— Ross Macdonald

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

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

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 trained in psychiatry in the 1970s, and much of our training was about what was then psychoanalytic theory, with a little bit of…

— Thomas R. Insel

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

“psychoanalysis is more than a technique; it is an art, and highly specialized training in craftsmanship will”

— Otto F. Kernberg

I have therapy. Every day. I read a bit of Freud; I try to be a better person. Every day.

— Art Malik

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

— Karl Kraus