Changed Quote by Karl A. Menninger

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

— Karl Kraus

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

— Karl Kraus

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

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 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 not a science: it is at best a medical process, and perhaps even more like witch-doctoring.”

— Richard P. Feynman

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

The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science.…

— 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

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

There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.

— Carl Jung

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

— Erich Fromm