Analysts Quote by Albert Ellis

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

“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

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

I've always wanted to be psychoanalyzed in a den of iniquity.

— Maya Banks

“paranoid atmosphere that often pervades psychoanalytic institutes and its devastating effect on the “quality of life” in psychoanalytic education. Members”

— Otto F. Kernberg

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

— Bernard Berenson

I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're…

— Samantha Morton

Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.

— Larry Brown

I'm not a 'suffer in silence' type; I'm a 'let's throw money at the problem' type - I've done reflexology, reiki, psychotherapy, counselling. I've…

— Ben Miller

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

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.

— Gene Fowler