Illness Quote by Karl Kraus Download Open image “Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.” — Karl Kraus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Illness Mental health Mental illness Psychoanalysis Psychology Therapy
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Most people believe psychoanalysis is a cure for unhappiness. They are sure they could overcome all their problems” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“psychoanalysis is not a science: it is at best a medical process, and perhaps even more like witch-doctoring.” — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all,… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia. — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
I think we need to talk about mental illness a lot more. People complain about tax dollars and say we don't have the money.… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
Having an eating disorder doesn't show ‘strength.’ Strength is when are able to overcome your demons after being sick and tired for so long.… — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's more common than not that bipolar illness will start in the teens. One of the reasons I spend a lot of time on… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
