Communication Quote by Janet Malcolm

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

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how…

— Amy Bloom

“[T]he psychoanalytic process should be understood as occurring between subjects rather than within the individual. Mental life is seen from an intersubjective perspective. Although…

— Jessica Benjamin

The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my…

— Jessica Lange

All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got involved in…

— John Patrick Shanley

“introspection and self-analysis, a creative capacity, an ability to think under adverse circumstances, ethical behavior that assures avoiding acting out in the counter transference,…

— Otto F. Kernberg

Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them.…

— Eckhart Tolle

“As with good history, good psychoanalytic interpretations must also make sense, pull together as much of the known data as possible, provide a coherent…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.

— Larry Brown

That's always been like a fascination to me - watching my family, three sisters and a brother and all growing up basically in the…

— Jessica Lange

“paranoid atmosphere that often pervades psychoanalytic institutes and its devastating effect on the “quality of life” in psychoanalytic education. Members”

— Otto F. Kernberg

The point of psychoanalysis is to really understand the roots of your behavior. Understand why you are doing the things you're doing - and…

— Tucker Max