Childhood Quote by Jessica Lange

All along, I've been writing about our fears, our longings, our fantasies, our ambivalences. When I decided to study psychoanalysis, I did it because…

— Judith Viorst

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

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

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

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

— Karl Kraus

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

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

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

My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.

— Helena Bonham Carter

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

I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem.

— John Malkovich