Believe Quote by Bernard Berenson

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

— Vladimir Nabokov

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious…

— Nathalie Sarraute

Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in…

— Anonymous

But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told.

— Shulamith Firestone

“[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

“psychoanalysis is not a science: it is at best a medical process, and perhaps even more like witch-doctoring.”

— Richard P. Feynman

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in…

— Saul Bellow

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

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

— Karl Kraus

Clinical training in psychoanalysis has a deficit. It teaches how to sit and think about what a person is saying and how to interpret…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to…

— Anonymous

Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.

— Woody Allen