Far Quote by Judith Viorst

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

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

Although psychoanalysis has influenced me personally, it has had curiously little influence on my writing. This may be because writers learn from other writers,…

— Janet Malcolm

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

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

— 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 have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why…

— Anne Roiphe

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

— Robert Jay Lifton

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

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 looked into studying psychoanalysis, wrote to the governing body and was about to start the year where they psychoanalyse you, four times a…

— Nina Conti