Quote by Dean Koontz

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

— Sigmund Freud

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

— Karl Kraus

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

— Karl Kraus

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Richard P. Feynman

“I can honestly say that my misery had been transformed into common unhappiness, so by Freud's definition I have achieved mental health.”

— Susanna Kaysen

“Psychoanalysis considers unwarranted issues as accepted as Truth.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.

— Carl Jung

Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

— Alexander Cannon