Burden Quote by Carl Jung

We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an…

— Carl Jung

You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate…

— Abraham Maslow

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of…

— Sigmund Freud

The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite…

— Sigmund Freud

“We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them. This is a difficult…

— Mark Epstein

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

— Anonymous

Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled with a personal, egocentric striving for superiority, and is therefore…

— Alfred Adler

A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.

— James Hollis

Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

— Mignon McLaughlin

To be cured, we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for another -…

— Henry Miller

“Long term denial and lack of integration of emotionally painful or cognitively incompatible realities may result in permanent changes to the brain that become…

— John G. Shobris