Heal Quote by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

— Karl Kraus

“Most people believe psychoanalysis is a cure for unhappiness. They are sure they could overcome all their problems”

— Dean Koontz

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

— Karl Kraus

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.

— Sigmund Freud

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

I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem.

— John Malkovich

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

— Alexander Cannon

Keeping one's eyes open, listening, watching, being quiet, adopting some of the techniques of the psychoanalyst in talking to people, will bring you that…

— Janet Malcolm

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

— Sigmund Freud

I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think…

— Stephen King

Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when…

— Thomas Szasz

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