Phrenology Quote by Frederick Crews

Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.

— Peter De Vries

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

Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever…

— Peter Medawar

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 was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set…

— Gilles Deleuze

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

— Karl Kraus

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

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

— Albert Ellis

“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

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

The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all…

— Mignon McLaughlin

The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of which they…

— Albert Ellis