Belief Quote by Gilles Deleuze

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

— Karl Kraus

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 the mental illness it purports to cure

— Karl Kraus

Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.

— Erich Fromm

“psychoanalytic institutes as monasteries or religious retreats and psychoanalysis as a system of religious beliefs. Whereas”

— Otto F. Kernberg

For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to…

— Anonymous

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of…

— Emile M. Cioran

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 justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A reality conditioned…

— Mircea Eliade

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 out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

— D. H. Lawrence