Freud Quote by Karl Kraus

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

— Karl Kraus

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 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 has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but…

— Karl A. Menninger

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

— Erich Fromm

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

— Sigmund Freud

“Most people believe psychoanalysis is a cure for unhappiness. They are sure they could overcome all their problems”

— Dean Koontz

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

— Richard P. Feynman

So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.

— Karl Kraus

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.

— Sigmund Freud

Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set…

— Gilles Deleuze