America Quote by Blake Bailey

“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

The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers…

— Martin Gardner

“the secretive oedipal couple and the excluded children so prevalent in psychoanalytic institutes. The “paranoiagenic” (Jaques, 1976) atmosphere of psychoanalytic institutes, the”

— Otto F. Kernberg

All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything sexual is…

— Simone Weil

In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People…

— Eric Kandel

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

— Maya Banks

“short, I am suggesting that the superego aspects of a psychoanalytic identity are reflected not only in moral integrity (in a moral as opposed…

— Otto F. Kernberg

“Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or at least…

— Lorrie Moore

Our culture is so inundated with Freudian prototypes, and I think that 'Twin Peaks' came up with a whole new Pandora's Box of outlandishly…

— Carel Struycken

“Subtle but significant superego pathology may easily go undetected throughout psychoanalytic training and only emerge later in trivialization, cynical relativism, messianic deterioration, and rigidly…

— Otto F. Kernberg

Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly…

— Gore Vidal

“As with good history, good psychoanalytic interpretations must also make sense, pull together as much of the known data as possible, provide a coherent…

— Stephen A. Mitchell