Cases Quote by Carl Jung

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

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

— Karl Kraus

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

— Karl Kraus

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

— Alexander Cannon

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

— Dean Koontz

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 a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with…

— Jacques Lacan

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

“Psychoanalysis considers unwarranted issues as accepted as Truth.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

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 problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science.…

— Eric Kandel

Although psychoanalysis has influenced me personally, it has had curiously little influence on my writing. This may be because writers learn from other writers,…

— Janet Malcolm