Case studies Quote by Lidia Yuknavitch

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth…

— Ross Macdonald

“The asylum, and later the national health service, warehoused thousands of patients made mad by the intrusions of a sexual predator. But these institutions…

— Beatrix Campbell

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

I've read everything printed in English that Freud has written. It helped me a great deal.

— Gene Wilder

When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it find its…

— Richard Yates

When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just…

— Cybill Shepherd

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

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've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.

— Dario Argento

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

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

— Robert Jay Lifton

“In the 1890s, when Freud was in the dawn of his career, he was struck by how many of his female patients were revealing…

— Lundy Bancroft